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HISTORY 


ELEVENTH  GEORGIA  YOLS.. 


EMBRACING 


THE  MUSTER   ROLLS. 


TOGETHER     WITH 


A    SPECIAL   AND   SUCCINCT    ACCOUNT 


MARCHES,  ENGAGEMENTS,   CASUALTIES,  ETC. 


BV  KITTRELL    J.   WARREN. 


RICHMOND,  VA : 

SMITH,       BAILEY       A      CO.,       PRINT-ERS 
1863.  .  ■ 


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^uLcicu  injL-uruiiig  lo  an  aco  or  Uungrcss  of  the  Confederate  States,  in  the  j'ear 

one  thousand  eight  hundred  nnd  sixty-three,  by 

KITTRELL    J.    WARREN, 

in  the  Clerk's  office  of  the  District  Courtj  for  the  Eastern  District  of  Virginia, 


4  -'<^i» 


TO    THE    MEMORY    OP    MY    COMTiADES, 

If  no     nATK     ILLUSTRATED    BY    FALLING,  IN    THE    CONFLICT    FOR    FREEnOM,     THE     MELANCHOLT 

REALITY    THAT 

"liberty     in    ITS     LAST    ANALYSIS     IS    THE     BLOOD     OP    THE    BRAVE," — 

THE     UNKNOWN    HEIIOES     OF     THE     CONFEDERATE     ARMY — 

WHOSE    NAMES    ARE     DESTINED     NEVER    TO     LIVE     IN     SONO    OR    STORY, 

BUT     WHOSE     MARTIAL     VIRTUES     WILL     REMAIN     IMPEniSHABLE    AS    THE     TDRF     THAT     RESTS 
r  UPON    THEIR     ASHES ; 

« 
WnOSB     DEEDS     OF     HEROISM     WILL    DESCEND    BY    TRADIT.ON    PROM     SIRE    TO     SON,     AN 
INVALUABLE     HEIRLOOM, 

AND     WnOSB     ABNEGATION,     FORTITUDE,     PATRIOTISM    AND     COURAGE    HAVE     SCARCELY    A 
PARALLEL    IN    THE     ANNALS     OF    MANKIND, 

THIS     PAMPHLET    IS     RESPr.CTFULLY    DEDICATED    BY    THE 

AUTHOR. 


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MUSTER  ROLLS  OF  THE  ELEVENTH  GEORGIA  REGT. 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  THE  FIELD  AND  STAFF  of  the  llth  Regiment  Georgia  Volunlc<:ri<, 
AndcrKon's  DrigivJi',  Hood's  Division,  Longnfreet's  Corps  of  Armi/  of  Xorthern  Virginia  ; 
from  the  time  of  muxtcring  into  service,  July  3,  1861,  to  February  1,  18G3. 


Names. 


Oeo.  T.  Andenon, 
T.  L.  Guerry, 
Chis.  T.  Goode, 
■Win.  Luffman, 
W.  R.  AVclch, 
F.  H.  Little, 
H.  D.  McDaniel, 

1.  H.  Xewton, 

J.  Guthrie, 
H.  D.  McDanld, 
Thos.  R.  TrammeU 
John  Hockenhull, 
B.  G   Boaz, 
F.  S.  CoUey, 
T.  A.  Mean?, 
Frank  Tharr, 
J.  P.  Clements, 
W.  A.  Simmons, 
J.  F.  Green, 
W.  H.  Griffies, 
Chas.  R.  Jones, 
Wm.  F.  Baker, 
R.  J.  Stepp, 
J.  W.  Morrow, 
J.  N.  BheaU, 


Rank. 


Colonel, 
Lt  Col., 
Major, 


Act.  Adjt 
A.  Q.  M. 

A.  C.  S. 

Surgeon. 
Ast.  Surg. 


Chaplain, 
Sgt.  Maj., 


Q.  M.  Sgt 
Com.  Sgt 
Ord.  Sgt. 


Residence. 


Newton  Co. Ga 
Quitman  " 
Houston  " 
Murray  " 
Gilmer  " 
Walker  " 
Walton    " 

Murray    " 


Tunnel  nilI,Ga 
Walton  Co.  Ga 
Fannin  ''  " 
Dawson  "  " 
Walker  "  •' 
Walton  "  " 
Newton   "    '• 

Walker    "    " 

Atlanta,  Oa. 

Dalton,  Ga, 

Gainesville,  Ga 

Richmond,  Va. 

I  Monroe,  Ga. 

I  Murray  Co.Ga. 

I 

I  Walton  "     " 


Elected. 


July  4,  1S61. 


Jan.  27, 1SG2. 

May  26,    " 

July  12,    " 

Nov.  8,     " 
Appointed. 
July  4, 1S61. 

Sept.2!,18Gl. 
Aug.  12,1862. 
Nov.  17,  " 
July  4, 1S61. 
Jan.  20,  1SC.3. 
July  4,  1861. 


Feb.  1862. 
Nov.  8,1SG2. 
July  12, 1861. 

CC        tl  11 

June  6, 1SG2. 
Sept.  10,    " 
Julyl2, 1S61. 
Sept.  8,     " 
July  7,  1862. 
Dec.  1.1,    " 


May  12,  1862. 
Jan.  1362, 


July  3, 1S62. 


Feb.  1,1862. 


July  3, 1562. 


May  1, 1362. 


Remarrs. 


Promoted  to  Brigadier  Gen. 
November  1, 1S62. 


Exact  date  of  resignation 

unknown. 
Promoted  Lt.    Col.  May   12, 

1862. 


Elected  Col.  Nov.  8,  1«C2. 


Exact  date  of  resignation 
unknown.  ^ 


Promoted  Maj.  &  A.  Q.   M. 

of  Brigade,  Aug.  2, 18o2. 
Elected    Maj.   of  R  giment 

November  S,  1S62. 


Promoted  Maj.  &  A.  C.  S.  of 
Brgade.Sept.  7, 1S62. 


Promoted  Surg.  Feb.  1,  liG?. 


Appointed   Adjutant    May 

22, 1862. 
Elected   Lieut.  Com.  "A," 

Sept.  9, 1862. 


Elected  Lieut    Com. 
Sept.  9,  lb62. 


I  certify  that  the  above  is  a  true  transcript  from  the  records   of  the   Regiment,  as 
far  as  attainable. 

J.  F.  GREEN,  A-ljutant  llth  Ga.  Regt. 


MUSTER  EOLL   OF    COMPANY  A,  11th   REGIMENT  GEORGIA    VOLUNTEERS. 


Name*. 

Bank- 

Beiurks. 

■Win   H.  M  tch-tl 

Ospta  n 

Slightly  wcunded  at  battle  manofsas.  August  80, 1S62. 

Wm.   11.  GriHies 

^ft  Li-ul 
2d  L  eut. 
Bvl  2uLiHui 

Ancrcw  L.oper  Keith 

Kcdar  L.  Boone * 

Ist  Sergesnt. 

Woani^cd  »t  iralrern  bill,  July  1, 1862,  and  again  at  minaint, 

.A.;).'a>t30,  IbO-.'. 

Thf-s  J   Wlll«ms 

'2d  8erg  ant. 

U-<  ut  de'  Htmaniuisa-,  A'.ipust  SO,  1862. 

Anderson  U   DorMj- 

3    Ser.  eant 

VVo.uded  at  manassae,  August  SO,  1S62. 

John  V  Sander  

4th  -erpt-ant. 

Tho>.   W.  Mull  nx 

5tli  Sergeant. 

Geo.  W.  Swoff.rd 

l-l  t  oriMial. 

'^oun^ed  at  mana8sa°,  Augi'ftSO,  186J. 

taiiford  V    B  nni;U 

Vd   '  orp'  ral. 

Wounded  at  m»na^sas,  August  30,  k62. 

J  hn  P   P.iit  rson 

3d  ron>niHl. 

Koljt.  V  lintoQ  YuuD^ 

4lhC:r|.oral. 

Right  arm  shot  olT  atmalTern  bill,  July  1, 1&62. 

Wal'er  C.  J  hnson 

UuElclan. 

^0.  .'i.M  rck 

^r    strf.np,  Martin 

" 

Private. 

Biirr.tt.,  B-  j   F 

Biiirett,  Anurew  J 

" 

Ba  ret',  (ir-e  .     K 

" 

Black,  Mil.  hell  a 

Bl,i.k    Johii  S 

f( 

Wounded  at  the  battle  of  Kharpshnrg,  September  17,  1863. 

Bo   -e  ,  Jac  b  T 

<> 

Bookei,  jHP.ies    

" 

Bis.zl,  '  ohe  t  II 

Buo  e,  Smnui;  J 

" 

Woundc  J  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  August  80, 1583. 

Biieps,  W.  G  e  ne 

" 

Caldw-ll,  H  rry  L  e 

Wounded  at  the  battle  of  inanaBsas,  An.ust  30, 1£62. 

CI   rk  Jdiues  P 

" 

D^w.-on,  John 

Wounded  at  battle  manassas,  ArgustSO,  1862. 

Eihols,  J'din 

Fo«le-,  lled.'.t  T 

Fl  yd,  J(,bi.  H 

■  • 

K'Thcs,  Ei.hita.i  G.  E 

" 

Ooudelock,  AKn  d  F 

" 

Gondelork,  Thomas  E. 

Hale  Jopii)h  G 

Hanson,  lii^bert  -> 

Hardage,  Aar   n  H 

H'Od,  Al)i  aliani 

Johns'in,  Dav.  K 

KiniJ,  Wiliani  J 

Mirch!ank>.  James  W.. 
Mctutcheon.  Thomas.. 
McCIestey,  Uivld  L.... 

Merck,  Jain-  s  L 

Merrlu,  John  N 

McGinn. f,  Tim  n)a^ 

W.KinD  y,  lioht.  F.   .    . 

jMorri-",  Geo.   11.    .    

Mooney.Jchn  K 

Mu  1  nix,  Fr;iH(  is  M. . .    . 

Mayn  ,  John  J 

O  Itll,  Sliphrn   C 

Mctlroy    Kraiicis  M. ..  . 

Reid,  Elisha  Mariun 

Rcici,  Ali'h"us  Andrew. . 

Sayp,  E|.lMi:-m  T 

SUton,Jaine'  A 

Sitton   II.  Cicero 

fmi  h,  Sti-pi.tn 

im  Ih,  Willimi 

UriDgef,  Jam- s  A 

Striikland,  Oliver  C 

Mrickland,  Talbot  D 

Tat-,  Zuc-  arah  B 

Tate,  Wad.'y  T 

Vllyard,  Geo.  W 

W)  itc,  Sanford 

Whitmne,  Samuel  W..  . 
Whitmiie,  A  Greene... 
Wh'tmire,  T.  Jefferson.. 

WbI  :ln.  UoTiry 

Whelchel,  Alexander  S.. 

Webster,  Jacob  J 

WiU  n,  Newman  J 

Wilson,  John  C 

Werr.n,  >Vi;iiamV 


Wounded  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  August  30,  1862. 
Wounded  at  the  battle  of  Kianas:ias,  August  SO,  1862. 


Wounded  at  the  battle  of  maca^sae,  August  80, 1"62. 


Wounded  at  th  -  battle  of  Sharpsbarg,  September  17,  lSfl3. 


Wocn'cd  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  Augv.stSO,  1862, 


MUSTER  ROLL    OF  COMPANY    A-(Contliiued,) 


Names. 


TouDg,  Nelson  T 

Discharged, 

VandWe'-,  Asa  P... 

Ivie,  C.  W 

Pugh,  W.  Y 

Bla  k,  Van  Buren.. 
Patterson,  Da  id  M. 
Ivle,  L.  (I'liomas  . . . 
M  Adams,  John_  P. , 
Hunt,  Augustus  N. . 

Died. 

Gower,  James  C. . . 

Cobb,  Wm.  D 

Keith,  Nathani;  IS. 

Carter,  ■Win.  M  ... 
William",  Geo.  A  .. 

Cot,   Milton 

Collier.  Rohprt  A... 

Powli  r,  L(iniuel 

Farmer,  Ttios.   J. . . 

Maddox,  "m.  H 

White  Mason 

Jeans,  Wilian: , 

Barr.  tt  F.  A 

Pugh,  James  A 

Booker.  Wm.  K 

Fl  yH,  Younir  G 

Tumlln,  Daniel  H.., 
Mooney,  Sion  C 


Rank. 


Private. 


1st  Lieut. 

aa  Sergt. 

Prlyate; 


Remarks. 


Olscharifed  at  general  hospital  for  disability,  December  U,  1361. 
DiscJiarge  1  at  general  ho.^pital  for  d  .»ali  lity,  December  14,  l»6l. 
Di>chart.'ed  at  g  neral  ho3>ital  for  disability,  date  n'>t  reported. 
D'^cliaraed  at  ramp  Bart  wfor  disability,  August  24,  1^6i. 
Uischa'-ge  '  at  genc-ral  hospital  for  disability,  Fobiuarv  186 J. 
D  scli^rged  at  g  nernl  hospital  for  di.-iabiliiy.  May  1S62. 
Discharged  a',  pe  leral  li'ispital  for  disability,  Ju  le  ISlii 
Discharged  at  general  hoSi).tal  for  disability,  October  5, 1862. 


D  e  1  at  WarrenloD.  Va.,  on  the  22.1  Sept.  1862,  of   woundj 

received  in  t  e  battle  of  manassas,  Aujjus-t  .^i). 
Dii'd  at  Warrenton,  0  toher  19,  wounJs  received  in  the  battle 

of  m;in:u.3»9,  August  80.  *' 

D>d  at  Warri  iiton,  on  the  80th  Sept.,  of  wounds  received  In  t&o 

the  ba'ile  of  maiiassas.  August  30. 
Died  of  disense,  at  camp  B  trtow,  on  the  19th   Aa?u't  1S6I. 
Died  of  d'sea'se,  at  camp  Bartow,  on  t'ie  'lOtb  Au /ust,  1^61. 
Di'd  of  di  ease,  at  cimp  near  cent  evide,  rn  'he  2il  Jan.,  1S63. 
Died  of  disease,  at  camp  near  rentreville,  on  th    17tli  Nov.  1S61. 
Died  of  disease  at  general  ho3|>  tal,  on  t  e  14th  Pept.,  1S62. 
Died  o"  di  esst',  at  general  hospital,  in  March    1SC2.  ^ 

Do  I  o'  disease,  at  jene  al  hospital,  In  S,  j)t.  1  61. 
Died  of  "lisea^e,  in  winter  quarters,  on  the  '.'^th  Feb.,  1863. 
Died  of  disease,  at  general  '  ospiti),  in  March,  1862. 
D  ed  of  dijeaee,  at  aencral  hospital,   Feb.  6,  1S6'. 
Died  of  ci  ease,  in  winter  quarttrs,  J  m    IS,  1862 
Died   of  'iisease,  at  general  ho.=  |)itiil,  Auril  15,  i(?62. 
l)i"d   of  disease,  at  i:eneral  Imp  tal.  Au-iust  I,  l~-62. 
Died   o'  diseas-,  at  general  hospital,  June  25   1S62. 
Died  of  dlsr^ase,  at  general  hospital,  in  may,  1862. 


MUSTER  BOLL  OF  COMPANY  F 


J.  D.  Hyde 

J.  W.  Johnson. . 
W.  N  Crawford. 
M.  C.  ]lriaDt.... 


W.  J.  Oueu.. 
J.V.  Oliver  .. 
N.  V.  Kaim.... 

11.  Eutly 

J.  Oribbee 

E.  H.  TboDoas. 
J.  B.  Moore... 
J.  A,  Payne. . . 
A.  J.  Syniard. 


C.  Lovel. 


AUen,  J.  D 

AUen,  H 

Ammon-',  G.  W 

Buchannan,  J 

Byru.,  N.   D 

briant,  G.  W   L  . .. 

Bryson,  F.  N 

Brygon,  A.  C 

Coue,  W 

Catoban,  J.  G 

Chastain,  J.  K 

Crump,  T.  L 

Collins.  H 

Cbai  man,  W.  M 

Deal,  W.  H 

Deal,  J.  W 

Deal.J.   E 

Davis,  W.  J 

Denton,  J 

EWy,  L.    W 

Knsly,  A.   J 

Flion,  H.  H     

Galloway,  W.  M.  C. 

Garrett  J.    L 

Garrett,  H.  K. 

Garrett  A 

Garron,  R 

Horris,  0.  H 

Jl.l  oway.  W 

Hise,  T.  W 

Holt,  M 

}Iolt,  L.  B 

Hyde,  S.  A"-- 

Hyde,  W.  C 

Jones,  S 

Jones,  M 

Jones,  A 

Johnson,  J 

Johnson,  T 

Kiker,  A 

Key,  M 

Land,  K.   D 

Ledford,  J.  F 

Long,  W 

Mcbee,  E.  F 

Mcbee,  G 

Miller,  J.  C 

Moore,  E.  H 

Moore,  Hugh 

Moore,  W 

Oliver,  B.  P 

Page,  A 

Phillips,  H.  H 

Patterson,  J.    

Patterson,  H.  G 

Pleminons,  J.  H 

P.emmons,  J.  K 

Flemraons,  J.  T 

Plemmons,  W.  H.. . . . 

Parsons,  L 

RoKers,  H 

Redln,  W 

Roberts,  A.  B 

Roberts,  J.   J 

Roborta,  R.  H 


Discharged  January  29, 1868. 
Pfomoled  to  Capta  n  J:inuary  ?0,  1S6.?. 
Promoted  to  l»t  Lieulen.int  January  80,  18f8. 
Promote  J  to  Brevet  '2d  Lieutenant  April  5, 1SC2. 


bounded  at  manassaii  Aufrust  80, 1S62. 
Wounded  at  Sha'pjburg,  September  17,  1862. 


Wounded  at  malvern  hill  July  1, 1S62. 


Private. 


Deserted  December  25,  1862. 


Wounded  .it  Sharpsburg,  September  17,  1862. 
Wounded  at  Yorktoven,  April  2i),  1802. 


Deserted  December  25,  1862. 

Wounded  at  mannassas,  August  80, 1862. 

Wounded  at  Yorktown,  April  16, 1362. 

Deserted  August  24. 1862, 


Wounded  at  Rappahannock,  Aupust  26, 1862. 
Promoted  to  2d  Lieutenant,  Jna.  iil,  1863. 


Wounded  at  Rappahannock,  August  24, 1862. 

Wounded  and  arm  amputated  at  manassas,  August  80, 1S62. 
WouDdfd  at  manassas,  August  30, 1S02. 


Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30,  1862. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August '3U,  1862. 


Deserted  August  24,  1862. 


Wounded  at  manassas,  August  80, 1862. 


Deserted  from  hospital  at  Richmond,  September  15, 1863; 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  80,  1862. 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  F  —(Continued.) 


Naiccs. 


Roberts,  J.  A. 
Stewart,  W... 
Shelton,  J. 
Searcev,  O.  L. 
Sims,  L.  L. ... 
Sharp,  E  P... 

Sharp,  H 

Scisson,  D.  P.. 
Thomas,  J.  B. 
■Williams,  J   .. 

Watson,  C 

Woodring,  H. . 
Whltnt-r,  D... 

Whitner,  P 

Ward,  J.  M... 
Ward,  A.  G. . . 
Weese,  J.  L.. 
Weese,  O.  W. 
Yother,  D.  J.. 


DiSCHAIGED. 

Rhea,  S.  M 

Bramblett,  J 

Chastoln,  J 

Gosnell,  M 

Buckhannan,  Sr.  J. . 
Payne,  Wm 


Died. 
Crowfofd,  James.. 

Tipton,  David 

Patterson.  Andrew. 

Hya't,  Wm  

McClure,  n 

Chastain,  JI 

Melar,  Thes 

Jarrett,  VV.  D 

Weese,  W.  N 

Byras,  G „ . . 

Harris.  0 

Holt,  J.  L 

Collins,  T 

Codey,  J.  A 

Briant,  J    H 

Sisson,    W.  H 

J.  V.  Moorf, - 

B:  B:  Moore 


Private, 


Remakks. 


Deserted  August  24, 1862. 

Wounded  at  Bappannock,  August  24, 1862. 


Deserted  December  25, 1S62. 

Deserted  September  15, 1862. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  80,  1862. 
Wounded  at  Rappahannock,  August  24, 1S62. 
Deserted  Augustus,  lb62. 

Wounded  at  Fredericksburg,  December  13, 1862. 


Discharged  at  camp  below  Richmond,  July  14, 1S62. 
Discharged  at  camp  below  Richmond,  July  18, 1862. 
Di--charge'1  at  camp  below  Richmond,  July  IS,  1662. 
Discharged  at  camp  below  Richmond,  July  -U,  1S62. 
Discharged  at  camp  holly,  August  4,  1862. 
Discharged  at  camp  holly,  August  4,  1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  centreville,  January  IS,  1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  O.  C.  H.,  \  a.,  April  15, 1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  0.  C.  H.,  ^a  ,  April  13,  1S62. 

Died  of  disease,  at  O  C.  H.,  Va  ,  April  12, 1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  O.  C.  H.,  Va.,  April  15, 1862. 

Died  of  disease,  atO  C.  H.,  Va.,  April  18, 1S62. 

Died  of  dist-ase,  at  Ritchmend,  April  20,  1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  Petertburg,  June  25, 1S62. 

Died  of  disease,  at  brigade  hospital,  June  22,1862. 

'Killed  in  the  battle  of  malvern  hill,  July  1,  1862. 

Killed   n  the  battle  of  malvein  hill,  July  1,  1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  h  me,  September  18,  1862. 

Died  of  disease,  at  home,  October  20,  1862. 

Died  at  manassas,  of  wounds  received  there  August  £0, 1863. 

Died  of  disease,  at  Winchester.  Novemb'r  6,  1SC2. 

Died  of  disease,  at  Winchester,  December  8, 1862. 

Died  of  disease,  June  3,  1S62. 

Died  of  distase,  .lung-S,  1862.  


10 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  D. 


Namm. 

Ramk 

RufAKKB. 

Wrlch   W  R 

Captain. 
Ist  Lieut. 

2d  Lieut. 

8d  LUut. 

Ist  SerKeanl. 

2d 

3d 

4ih       " 

Ist  Corporal 

.'a       " 

81 

4lh       " 

Flfer. 

Drummer. 

Private. 

'lected  Major  26lh  M  y,  1S62. 

Sleeted  Cart.  Co.  I.  89  Ui.  Vols.  Aup,  1,  '62,  and    traDsfcired  to 

Mlltot,  w.  r 

We'»,  T>.  M 

Mny.S.  B... 

Hunt,  11.  K 

Frr  11  an,  W    C  

saiil  rcir'Ticot 
Ite  ijcned  JTtti  .lune,  18fi'2   at  '  Irlimond.  Va. 
leslKr.e  i,  Aupu  t  9ih,  ibfil,  at  Ca  •  p  I'arlovr,  V-i. 
-led  d  :ui  Lt.  1  tli  Auk  61.    On  inh  >iMy,  '62,  e  cc'ed  Captain 
•lectedijd  l.iiut.  4'h  «uk.  '62      On  Itie  9'.li,  ilet  d  id  MrUU 

erifli'li.C.  A 

W.  undid  severely  at  Slmrpsiiu  g,  Septein'ier  '.0,  '^6.'. 

Died,  Ist  1  ercml  cr,  '61,  of  camp  fever,  at  *  amp  .\n  re*  He,  V*. 

WllMam-,  A.  J  .. .    

Appoint,  d  2d  8  ■r;eant   4th  Aiipust,  1S6.*. 

Peoland,  G.  W 

Briani.  M.  0 

Branilitt,  W.  H .*. 

vpp  inieil  4lh  8erge.<iii.  l<>tli  Deo  ,  '61.     (Jn  7t)i  July, '62.  elected 
2d  1  I-ut.     W  unde<l  3'ltli   Aug.  '62,  at  .Man>t»a9,  Va.     Died 
of  wound  on  15lli  Ori    'ti2. 

rrans^T  ed  to  Co.  F  .  llMiGa  VMs  on  1st  Feb.  '63. 

Iilc  1  2'^th  "f  Januarv,  '62  of  camp  fever. 

namptoD,  A.  K 

Bampion,  i«.  P 

Briaiii,  David 

■lackii'ockv  J   H     

Brooks,  W.M 

Br  ckct,  J.  U 

Biahrp.  KB 

BUukcnflip,  W.  A 

Exil-v,  J.  \V   

tt'ountlei  Soth  Aug  '62,  si  i  hlly  on  he  id. 
d-d  at  Culpeper  Hospital,  Hec.  23,  '62. 

Appointed  1st  Corpor  '1,  Novem  )er  10th,  '62. 

Appointed  4th  Corp.  Aug.  12,  '62.  Appolnted3J  Cprp.  Nov.  10,  'C2. 

Wounded  slightly  on  side  head,  July  Ut,  1S62. 

Billing',  Martin   

Wounded  Ist  July,  1802.  on  the  head,  slightly. 

Biuwii,  A.  L 

C.x,  MJ 

^feut  to  G.  H.  April  8, 1802.     Has  not  been  heard  of  since. 

Cr   B»,    ^)n^;ll;!OD 

tieBe:ted  tromcamp,  ntar  Fredericksburg,  Va  ,  Uecemnei  7,  'CJ. 

•ale,  W.  L 

Dale  J   L 

On  1ft  July,  '62,  wounded,  three  fingers  shot  olT. 

Eftrly,  H.    F 

Wounded  Ist  July,  '62  ;  skull  fractured. 

tvttt,.!.  L 

Uli'itl,  B.   It 

Discharged  2'th  July,  '03.                             , 

|i;,,lv    V    K 

rrisbv,  F.  M 

Wounded  in  hand  and  thigh. 

fa.iiniii.',  E.  U 

Gaiee,  U,0 

Appointed  l3t  Serg't  June  15,  '62;  wounded  sev^  rely  In  knee  on 
Isl  Ju.v,  '02      On    0th  ^ov.  reduced  to   rank-"  fur  diH;ibilt..v. 

Appo'ntedlatScrg't,    4th  Aug   '61;    elected  3.1  L!eutcn«u.    27lh 
Mi.v,  '62.     (»n  4lh  Aug  elected  1st  Lieut.    July  Isl,  wounded 
!«li(;''tly  It)  hand.     Aug.  30,  '62,  left  arm  broke. 

D'schuiged  U-Teniber  7    '61. 

Gadgcr,  M.  F 

Honeycult,  C.  W 

Honey  CUM,  M.J 

Blps,  .1.  A 

Oa.v.=,  .1.  L 

BaipiT,  JiiraMj  E 

Hauer,  J.  F 

Uischaige.l  15th  July.  '62. 

Dlschaig-  d  Nov  29,  '61,  at  Hlchmond,  Va. 

S'lghl  wound  on  jaw,  at  Malvern  Hill,  Va  ,  July  1st,  '61. 
Discharged  27th  Sept.  '62. 

Hlr,  A.  J 

Appointed  ."xl  <"orp'l  Aug  12, '62.      Appointed  Is-t  Seig't  Nov.  10. 

JoDe«,  n.  J 

KeP.C.J 

JKell,  M .  V 

Wouuiled  slightly  in  leg  on  'iSd  Aug. 
nischarg.d  15th  July,  '62. 
Appointed  2d  Corp'l  Feb.  10,  '62.  Appoii  ted4t>i  Serg't  July  7, '62. 

tODR,  H.  P 

Long,  11.  V 

Appointed  4  h  Corp'l  Feb.  10,  '62,  and  5th  Sergeant  August  I2lh 
Wounded  at  fliarpsburg,  Sept.  I'i,  '62. 

Lanniiit,  J.  K 

Promoted  to  6th  Corp'l  Nov.  10  '62. 

Transferred  to  2:3d  Ga.  Reg't,  Isl  V  ^y,  '62. 

McVav,  iBiiac 

Mllclill,  W.  L 

Mav,  M.  D 

raiHn,  .Ii.hn 

Meale-,  W   K   

Wounded  at  Manasjss,  Aug.  30,  '62. 

Wnun'icd  at  Malvern  Hill,  July  I't,  '62. 

Dischaig-d  15th  .luly,  '62 

Sent  to  gennriil  hospital  Ap  11  8,  1S62  — not  heard  from  since. 

»1e«l.r,  w.  II... 

Mealer,  Th'-mas 

Di^d  8e,)t..  '62 

Wounded  - 1  .Malvern  Hill,  July  1,  '62. 

Appointe  1  2d  Corp'l  Aug  12,  '62.    Wounded  at  Manassas  Aug.  80. 

On, W.  V 

Pr'cheif,  VV.  M 

Wounded  at  Malvern  Hill,  July  1,'62. 

Pri.  licit,   M.  L 

P.l.h   tt,  F.  M 

flnson   J 

1  l.-d  Jan.  20  '62 
Discharged  Julv  16,  '61. 

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MUSTER  ROLL  OP  COMPANY  D-(Contlnued.) 


Names. 

Rake. 

RBMRK3. 

PUmmons  J-  S 

PIemmon=,  L.  M 

Porv,  <•.  H 

Plumlv.  W.J 

Ro-i-id  ,  K.  .1   

holierd-,  1    f?,   

Pflvate. 
ti 

•• 

It 

(! 

Appointed  1st  CorpM  An?.  1,  '62 ;  wonrded  at  Malverz  Uil',  J Jly 

1, '  2;  e'ect'd  3  1  lii«iit.  Nov  9,  'CU. 
Wounded  at  Malvern  lli:i,  July  1st  "62. 

Ro   .Till,  R    Z 

«  oiindfd  at  Malvern  II'M,  July  1,'62. 

D'scharted  4'b  July,  '62. 

Wounded  at  Yoiktown,  April  16,  '62.    Died  May  1  \  '62. 

nob  rrti',  P.    ' 

Roberds,  K.  S . . 

Ran   J.  R 

R»n.  W,r 

f  itton,  .).  B 

Dischirp  d  .'u'y  1.5,  '62      Recruit. 
Disclnrged  May  31,  '62. 

PItton,  .1    II   

8h  pherd,    •  .  L   

PhHiherd,  J.  W 

Se!»ri-.-v    W.  0 

Sm'-h,  T   W 

Died  Aptill4, '62. 

Bmlih,  1.  M 

Pmit    ,  A.  J          

Pe-ruit.     Died  S^pt  20,  '62. 

ni<-h:ircpd  Ian.  4   '62.     Recruit. 

l)i   d  Aii(r.  «   'C'2.     Re  r  rt 

Pefprii-d  fr  ni  c-imn  '  e^ir  FredT'ckshurg,  Va  ,  Dec.  T,  1SC2. 

^^  ounded  at  Shurpsburg,  September  16,-  '62. 

Dii'd  24th  Nov.  '61. 

Phelfon,   3 

Pissin.  D.  C. ., 

Thn'p-ou     n 

Tip'on    n.  J     

Tipton    JO     

Teagii"    N    R 

Reciuit.     Wouniied  at  Manassa^,  Aug.  80,  '62. 

Walk-r    J    U     

D'-'d  .T;inuarv2S   '62. 

V  ooilrin  •,  S 

Welih,  Wm....    

Wtbb.  .lohT           

ni^cborsrcrl  .Inly  K,  '62. 

Oi'd  2nt.h  April.  '62. 

Wnu'  <it"1  at  Manassas,  Aug.  30,  '62. 

Dlsch.irged  Nov.  13,  '62. 

Worlv  H         

W'ls-n,  .Tuines 

Wi!s  n.  Th-m.s 

WooHnir),  M    w    ' 

Kecrult. 

Wo-Kl.Mrri,  XV    ^f 

Di3  h.Tfied  July  l'',  '62. 

Wor'e.v,  W 

Wa-'k  ns,  J    S 

Yountr,  VV.   D 

Di8cha'ged  Nov.  29, '61. 

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NiilEfl. 

Rask. 

Remarks. 

- 

Captain. 
1st  LeuL 
•Id   Leiut. 
:M  LeUU 

Ist  Sergeant 
•id  Sergeant. 
■SI  Sergeant. 
4tli  -ergeant, 
5th  Sergeant 
1st  Corporal. 

•2d  Corporal. 
•Sd  Corporal. 
4th  Corporal. 

Private. 
(1 

■1 

>i 

i< 

II 

<> 

E  ected  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  11th  Regt.  Ga.  Vols.,  July  S,  1301 

L   P    l>  zier 

Kleclel  Capt.  Co  "I,"  July  8,  ISfil.     Keslgned  Nov.  23,  iSOl. 

Elected  Itt  Lieut.  Co.  "l,"  J  .ly  -i,  ISiil. 

ElecteJ  2a  Lieut  Co.  "I,"  July  3,  Isiil      Died 

K.  M.lll'tlsoe 

0.  R.  tmlfi 

Wm.  B.  Groce 

Daniel  0.  Neel 

I?.  8.  Uardcn ... 

W.  B.  Gilbert 

D.  Mcllvane 

E.  B.  Uraiimn 

Jes«e  W.  Pittman 

Killed  at  the  batt'e  of  manassas,  August  SO,  1S62. 
Discharged  October  i»61. 

Elected  3d  Lieutenant,  ISCl.    Reslgmed  May  14, 1S02. 

Elected  Hd  Lieut.  May  23,  '62;  wounded  slight  In  head  at  manas- 
sas, August  30,  1S62, 

J.  G.  I>.  Pi  man 

V.  U.  KirkKnil 

Adams   (i.  W 

Discharged  September  21,  1861. 

Killed  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  August  30, 1?C'2. 

Wounded  at  the  battle  of  manasas,  August  30,  lSO-2. 

Adair.  U    M      

Appei-son   B.  W 

Arnold,  Wm.  \V 

Atwell,  R.  T 

Died  August  IS,  1861. 
Died  November  26,  1862. 
Discharged  November  25,1801. 

Wounded  at  t^e  battle  of  minassa^,  Ausrust  8^,  1SQ2. 
Klepted  3d  Lientenant,  September  9, 1S62. 
Wounded  severely  n  lungs  at  manassas,  August  80,  1S62. 
W^ounded  at  the  bait  e  ol  manassas,  August  »0,  i8o'2. 

Died  January  5,1862. 
Died  October  23,  1861. 

Killed  attlie  battle  of  manassas,  August  SO,  1S62. 

Boyette,  G.  M 

Bftikom,  J.  M 

Be  cher,  S.   P 

IJelclur,  C 

Bland  A.  M 

Bowen.  J    N 

Cook,  Wm.  G 

Curiae,  C 

Carttr,  J.  F 

Cnmbep,  \V.  A 

Cal  nan,  S.  8 

Davis,  J.  F  

nav8,J.  S 

Davi-,  K.  M 

Dard'n.  E    B 

Killed  at  the  haltle  of  raa'vern  hiil,  July  1,  1S62. 
Wounded  a'  Sharpsburg,  Md.,  September  17,  1862. 

Edg..rly,  A.S 

El   S.J.  O 

Kritl^T.  U 

Discharged  August  9,  IsOl. 

Disrh.Trged  November  17,  ISOl. 
Died  October  5  1S61. 

Kri'-h    Joseph 

Gilbert,  G.  W 

nischarped  November  17,  ISCl. 
Killed  at  manassas,  August  80,  1861. 
Klected  3d  Leiut.,  April  8,  1862. 
Dscharged  August  9, 1861.  . 

Discharged  November  17,  186'. 

Guerry,  J    B 

Gilbert,  Nathan  R 

Harrann,  G.  W 

JJar'-ison,  Thomas 

Hobbs,  H.  W 

Hales,  E.  K 

Hunter,  J.  W 

Hunt/ J.  A.  G 

D'scharged,  October  1861. 
Died  Octoner  <>,  1861. 

HudKcpeih 

Died  April  7.  IS62. 
Died  November  15,  1562, 

I/Saeur,  B  P 

McLeod,  J.  T 

Died  Jane  24,  1502. 

Mocre,  G.  W 

Mor.-i.-,  R.  F 

Discharged  October  7, 1861. 
Died  AuKU.HS,  1861. 
Died  Au  'ust  20,  lci61. 

Morris,  U.   K 

Moslev,  W.  H     

Manuhan,  W.  H 

Piltrajin,  J    C 

Discha-geJ  Jai.uary  5,  1862. 

Discharged  July  12,  1862. 

Wounded  at  Sharpsiurg,  Md.,  September  17, 1SC2. 

Pitt  ran,  W.  J 

Plt'raan,  F  M , 

Vlukaton,  Wra 

aisfha-.ged  November  IS,  1S62. 

Discharge'!  April  18,  1862. 
Diicharged  N  ivember  22, 1861. 

Price,      G 

Pyle   R.  U 

Phillij.a,  W.II 

PittmiD,  11.  F 

Klck^  J.   11.  A 

Hoa-^b,  K 

Died  August  25, 1861. 

.•<auder.s,  T.  W 

Discharged  Aufust  9,  1851. 
Died  November  23,  1S61. 

.>ah   erlin,  (i.  S 

>>inde.lir.,  J.  A 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1962. 

Thatcher,  S 

Elected  Captain  November  29, 1961. 

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NAMsa. 

Rank. 

Remarks. 

Private. 

Thora:S,  B.  K 

Died  Anril  22.  1S62. 

Tbompson,  J.  D 

Upton.  Jordon 

Upton,  J.  F 

Walls,  J.  F  

"            ^Wounde'l  at  manassas,  August  .30, 1S62. 
"             Wounde(^at  manassas,  August  30.  1=62. 
"             Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1S62. 
"              Died  March  5. 1S6'2. 

RrCRuiT*. 
Thomas,  A.  B 

McMullen,  0.  W 

Morrs.  R.  F 

Satterwhlte,  E.  W 

Satterwhiti",  M   L     

"            Died  June  12, 1862. 

Stanford,  P   .1 

"             'l>ied  April  12,  1862. 

Sanders,  S.  D 

"             Di  d  June  10,  1862. 

Hambrick,  J   F 

"               Disrha.r?ed  October  8.  1862. 

Pittman,  J.  J 

11 

Discharged  Oitober  13,  1S62.                                    ^ 

Hiigl-r,  C.  0 

Sanderlin.  W.  G 

% 

Cannlngton,  8.  M 

Fittman,  J.  G.  D 

Conscripts. 
Hobb8,  W.  M 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  80, 1862. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  SO,  1862. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  SO,  1862. 
Died  October  15, 1S62. 

Hilton,  W   R 

Hinton,  J.  M 

Hall,  J.  r 

H-rndon    W.  J 

Mayes,  T.  0 

Die  1  Sept.  5, 1862,  from  wounds  received  at  battle  of  manassas, 
August  80, 186J. 

Mayes,  T.  J 

Mlller.H 

Crawford,  G.  S 

English,  W.  B 

Died  August  10, 1862. 

Jackson,  H 

Pasley,  W.  P 

Died  Saptember  24,  1862. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1862. 

Star.  J-  T 

S<^ott,  J.  W 

Winfrey,  J.L 

Wood,  N 

Sappington,  T.C 

Moody,  W.  P 

Died  September  22,  '862. 
Wou-ded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1862. 
Wounde  )  at  manassas,  AuL'ust  3  >,  1S62. 
Wounded  at  mana.'sas.  AnerustSO.  1862. 

Barbre,  P.  S 

<>              I 

14 


MUiTEE  nOLL  OF  COM  ANY  H. 


NiMCl. 

BtNK. 

Bbmaiie*. 

U  T  Nnnnally 

Captain. 

1st  Llut. 
2rt  Leiut. 
Byt.  2d  Lt. 

let  Pergeant. 
21  Sir/eanl. 
3.1  Ser|2ean'. 
4lh;*trg  «:  1. 
InOoiporal. 
Ud  Corporal. 

8d  Corporal. 

4th  Corporal. 

Fir.r. 
Drummer. 

Private. 

It 
>> 

,1 

«« 
li 

t< 

Pri-moted  Capt. 'rom  9d  Lieut.,  Jalv9,  ISCl.    O.  T  Andervon, 

prumot'il  Coloiel,  since  promised  Bri)iadier(>  n- ral. 
Promoted  QiMrl  rma^t  r;   sinc<-  |>  omot<rcl  iluj  ir  hy  i-lec'ion. 
Killt  J  at  '2d  iiHtlle  man  <s8as,  Aug.  ik),    802,  viiile  act  Adjuiaot. 
P.omoteJ  I«t  L,  eut ,  vice  U.  U.  al'  Daniel,  prom.)-ed. 

Wounde  t  In  le  t  leg  at  hatile  manas  &■,  A'>gu»t  33,  13(52. 
Kischirgsl  be'-aus--  <{  dl  ea^e,  Jai  uarv  27,  [S6i 
Promnte.l '.' 1  S;--.!.  Jhh.  2T,  'SO-.';  viieK  kle-,   d  scharged. 
Promni.  d  .'M  Serg  .,  vice  K.  S.  Kax  ey,  prom   led. 
Trantfe' led  lo  llK  non  cominl'i8(>D>'d  stair  Hs  Q.  M.  Pergt. 
Uied  I  r  dUeis-i.    at   hi.hmond,    •pril    \:i,  1:50.'.     Promoted  1st 

Corpoml,  vcelt.   F.  UiKir,  prom  ted  4tti  tergt.,    vice   W.   J. 

hichsrdson,  piomoli'd.                                         • 
K  lied   at   lUppalannoi  k  ctation,  Aug.  23, 1^i^2.     Prrmot  d  1st 

Corporal,  vice  Smlt  ,  p  om  ted4lh  Sergt.,  vice  J.  N.  Morroir, 

pinmited. 
Pr.  moted  S'Tgt.  from  Corpl  ,   vice   Preston,  kllle'1,  and  f  cm 

S  r^t  to  Lieut.,  October,  1862. 

KtchanBidD'c.  6,  1S62,  f  r  W.  Still,  Co.  ¥.,  IGth  Ga.  Ecgt, 
Died  Lf  diieose,  December  1-3,  1801. 

# 

Died  of  di«ease,  July  7,  1S62,  at  Richmo'^d. 

Disrharged  because  o(  dise^ise,  May  lMi2. 

K. lied  at  the  2  1  battle  •  f  manassas,  August  80,  1S62. 

DIschar  eel  N 'Vem'-'er  20  1S61. 

H.  D  M  Pannlel 

Eugcnius  E.  Ari-old 

J.  K.  Nunnally 

John  T.  Kckle< 

Richards.   Ka?iey 

W.  K.  Bak-^r 

A.  H.  emilh..' 

R.  M  Preston 

E.  P.  Bla8«lD?am  c 

Wm    C.  R'chirdson  

Teos.  G.  Wood - 

Ath-i  JoOiaa 

Aths,  Thoma 

Alha,  Julin 

Arm^lad.  K.   ?  

Arm-lead.  W.   V 

Al  e'l  James  C 

Alien,  William  E 

Boyc-,  M    V 

Bnyce.  J  .hn  H 

DiBcharped  Sept-mher  -/.S,  1^61. 

I)»^charg  d  '•'ay  1,  ISiW   l)y  or 'cr  of  the  8e  retary  of  War. 

Pi  chiriieri  St-pt  VS  1S6I,  f  omgeaertl  hospit.il,  Oulpcper,  Va. 

DiM-h-rgtd  November,  IbOl. 

Woundfd  at  Ytrkiowu,  )n  the  thtgh,  April  16,  18C2  ;  at  home  oa 

fuTloUfh. 
Diatharijeil  because  of  substitute,  Jan.  21,  1862. 

Wounded  in  the  leg  at  the  battle  of  man  issas,  Aug.  80,  1862  ;  at 

home  on  furlough. 
D  ed  because  of  d  8ea:e,  January  10,  li62.                               ^ 

I'romottd  Corporal  from  private,  September,  1862. 

Subetituted  fo-  Warren  J.  Ivy,  January  27,-1S62 

Wound  d  in  the  !>  <ttb  of  malveru  hill,  lu  ihe  loot  w'.th  a  mlnnl* 

hall,  July  1,     SG2. 
Con-cripl — .iisc  arg  d  a*  Pii-hmoni,  Va. 
DischdigeU  Septcmoer  23,  lb6  ,  because  of  clsease. 

K  lied  at  'he  batili»  cf  mina  sae,  AuyustSn.  IS"*". 

Brown.  J   T 

Blanbcnship,  R.  R  

Brifcoe,  E    B 

BaTlrv,  Wm 

Braxlev,  James  A 

Barcfie'd,  W.  S 

BM«k.  A.  C 

Baohe'iir,  Thomas  A 

Blackwel  ,  .lohn  ■: 

M-Bingame,  A.  U 

Blassiii5tiue,     .F 

Browning  1.  B 

Broadnax,  W.  C.   D........ 

Briadn^x    Joel 

Bull  r,  W.  H 

AnoM    .1.  II '[ 

)<arlon,  Davi  ' 

B.r.n«tt,  Asa .'..'.'. 

Bennett,  Washinjfton 

Bu  Be,  Morton  Y 

Uilloway,     osi.vh 

Cillowav,  J.  I) 

K  lied  at  the  bat  1    of  m+nas  xv,  August  30,  1862. 

Wounded  in  the  leg  atthe  hHttle  of  mihern  hi'l,   'Ulyl,  1862. 

Discharged  because  of  disease,  November  10,  ls6l. 

Cooper,  Henry  J 

Cooper   W.  T; 

Woundi.d  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  Aug.   80,   1802.     P  omoted 
Oorpjral  Aug.  5,   1862,  and  promoted   S  rgt    tcpt   1802,  vice 
Preston,  p' omoted. 

Cason,  Thomas 

CJay.H.  C , 

Discha  ped  beciUbe  of  diiease,  .November  l(>,  ISKl. 
Wounded  at  Rappahannock  station,  Aug.   2\  i £.62 ;  at  home  on 
f  irloiigh. 
ent  off  sick  ram  Vorklown,  and  nev  r  heard  from  since. 

'Cldy.R.  H 

Dickins.ir,  B.  C  .. 

Pltkiiifon,    .8 

BavN,  R,  II     

Conscrpt— lilscharged  because  of  disease,  Aug.  10,1802. 
Di'd  0  t',bfr3    't6l. 

Dalton,  .te  se 

DIachaiged  June  20,  1862. 

Eikles.  F   M 

Edward  ,  W.  T 

Died  Feptember  20,  1862,  from  a  wound  received  atthe  battleof 
ma-  ai  as,  August  30,  1S02. 

Edwa'd*.  M    \ 

Everc  ',  8    11    

Eve  ett.John 

Prfmimug  1,  S.  T 

U  l)h8(;.  M '..'..' 

(i'hl)^    ..    J ■ 

Grimn,  J.  W 

Died  of  diseas  ,' October  27,  ^62,  near  Win.hester,  Va. 

Di'd  he"au=e  of  dls-ase,  Dicemb-r  2^,  ISCl. 
Difcha  ged  be  au-e  of  disab  lity,  July  18    1862. 
Klll-ii  ^ithe  i.altio  of  maUern  hill,    uly  1,  ISC2. 
l/l  d    *ufust   8,  1862,  from  wmads  icce  v..d   at  the  battle  of 
malveiu  h'll 

Oarreit,  W.  U.  H 

15 


MUSTER  ROLL  OP    COMPVNY  H    (Continued.) 


Name.-?. 

Rami. 

Reuahks. 

Garrett,  John  H 

11 
<t 

11 

Died  of  disease,  April  IS,  1863. 

Garreit,  J.  J 

G.irrett,  W.  J 

G^thrl.-,  J.B 

Guthrie,    K.  E 

Uayes,  C.  L 

Uav8,  L.  O 

Haves,  J-   H 

Wounded  at  the  2d  battle  of  manaHsaf,  Augn  t  3?,  1862. 
bischargid  because  of  disease,  August  10,  1362. 

Died  of  disea-e,Mav.3I,  1«G2. 

H»wk    T.  H 

Killed  at  the  battle  o'  manassas,  August  80, 1SG2. 
iHel  of  dUcase,  May  19,  l.=6.'. 

H^vrlr,  J    \V     

Hawk,  r.  A ~   

Hester   S     

Idled  at  the  2J  battle  of  manassaa,  August  30.  1£63. 
Promoto  1  Corporal  from  private,  Aujust:?,  1S62. 

Died  or  disva'e.May  18,  186!. 

Killed  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  August  30, 1?6?. 

D  scharg  d  by  meani  o.  a  substitute,  January  HO,  188?. 

Died  .Tuly  10, 1862. 

He<ter,J.  M 

Humphrey,  J  )slah 

HuJson.  i).  N- 

Ivy,  Wilson  L 

Ivy,  '^  arren  J 

La  eter,  Wllian    1' 

Lowe,  William  L  

Morrow,  J.  W 

Malcnm,  t.  D 

Malom,J.r 

Miyfiell,  R.  4 

Mann,  Rohen  J 

Promoted  Iroiu  Se-p*.  to  Ord.  Sergt.,  Aug.  1S02,  and  from  Ord 
Sergt.  to  Lieutenant,  Sejitembea  9,  1S62. 

Wounded  in  the  battle  of  Sharpsbu-g,  September  IT,  1833. 

Mann,  James  A 

Man>,  W.  ^ 

Wounded  at  the  batMe  of  raanarsas,  August  30,  1S62. 
ni?chari?e!i  becauBe  oT  disea-e,  August  10,  1S62. 
Promoted  Corporal  from  private,  acpt,  1862. 

Killed  at  th  3  battle  of  manassas,  August  30, 1883. 
Di'charged  November,  1863. 

Moon,  M.  B 

Myer  ,  H.  11. 

M-e  s,  R    E 

Myer.^  U   W   

Man  h-in,  Jam  a  t 

Mit  hum,  Wm 

Mc>la   an,  PL 

Melton.  1.  H   

M_-lton,  William  T 

Melt  m,  B.  \f 

Melton,  B.  W 

Transferred  fron  10th  Alabama  Regiment,  November,  1331. 

C.>ns  ript. 

Oon-cript. 

Conscript. 

SuiiBttmed  for  E.  R.  Btl;coe,  January  3t,  1S63. 

Died  Septcmher  4,  l>^6l,at  Culpeper  hospital. 

Wounded  at  the  battieof  miaassas,  Au^u  t3;>,  1S03. 

Died  May  20, 1£S3. 

• 

Me  t  11,  A.  A 

Melt-n,  D.  K 

Kelton,  ir.  H 

Ne^him,  Ch   rles 

Neel  an,  Roily 

Peters,   P.  vf 

Peterg.J.  T 

Pettr-,  A.  F 

Piriin,  n.  K 

Partin,  J.  J 

Part  n,  W.  * 

Partin,  William  m 

Partin,  B  rry   W 

Conicr'pt. 

Pat  tin,  J<<8e  W 

Preston,  H.  H.  <i 

R-^eve-,  Tho  opson 

Riid,  loen  T.     

Richar.lson,  Jame' J 

R  beit»,  J.   »l 

W  unded  at  the  battle  of  raanaisas,  AajustSO,  1SC3. 
D  schartjed  l)-!C.  23,  1-61.     Promoml  hospital  bleward. 
Discharged  December  ;i!4, 1861. 

Rihei-nnn.  J.  L . 

Rtrascy,  O.  W 

Died  May  15, 1862. 
Dischaiged  August  1, 1862. 

Lost. 

Stark,  AuiiU'tu^ ... 

Shellnut,  H.f! 

emit   .Joel.... ■ 

Smith,  M  |.s 

8mit-,.Iohn  B 

Bmith,  C.  L 

Disch.arged  November  10, 1861. 
Uiacharged  NoVemjer  10,  ib6.'. 

Wounded  at  the  battle  of  manassas,  AngustSO,  1362. 

W.-v'iniled  in  arm  at  the  battle  of  Fre.^e-icksbu'g,  1882. 
Kile  1  at  the  rvatt'e  of  m  inas-ia^,  Au  'Ust  3i),  1862. 
Wounded  in  b:\'ll«  m:in\<s«8,  AugustSO,  1S62. 
Wfljn  e-Mn   battle  manassas,  .iugust  30,  lb6.'. 

ie  '  June  3,  1«6J. 
Diao^  arge  1  by  reason  of  substitute,  November  14, 1883 

Di-d  April  5,1862. 

Di-dof  sm.ll  po.x,  September  18, 1S6?. 

Woun  led  atbal.le  man»3sas,  August  30, 1863. 

Rmilh,  W.  11 

Sluier,  A    L 

Sluler,  Wiii.am  D  

Tuck,   t.  L 

Tuck,  S.(;.    

Tuck,  '.  T 

Tuck,  O   W 

Tilman,  J.  W 

Towl-r,  B.J 

Thorap-ion,  f.  R 

Thimpinn,  Joseph  T 

Thompson.  John  W 

Ttiomason,  U.  0 

Wilv.  f.  VI.   

16 


MUSTER  EOLL  OF   COMPANY  H— {Oontlnaed.) 

Names. 

Rx.fK. 

B.EMABK8. 

Wtly,  J.D 

Wily  J»me«M 

I 

Promottd  Corporal  September,  1862. 

Wily.Wiiliam  J   

DI«cliar(?pd  October,  lf>61. 

Wiiscopkev,  William 

Williams,  R.  J 

Discharged  May  16,  1802. 

Promoted  Corporal,  Jan.,  1SC3.     Killed  at    battle  manassas, 

Woodruff  C'  H 

August  80, 1SC2. 

Woodruff,  J.  W 

Walson,  Bennett 

Watson   S.  P 

Confcrlpt. 

Hand  amputated  by  accidental  dbcharge  of  his  piece. 

DischarRed  August  10,  1802. 

Whatley,  P.  J 

Substituted  for  Tellraan,  November  14, 1S62. 

Still.  W.  M 

Sbeats,  Joseph  M 

Transferred  byexc^hange  from  16lh  Georgia  Regiment. 
Transferred  to  ordnance  office,  December  IS,  1862. 

17 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF   COMPANY  C. 


Naheb. 


W.  Luffraan. .   . 
E.  W.  Jackson. 


B.  H.  Newton 2-i  Lieut. 

W.  U.  Rainsy 8d  Luut. 


F.  P.  Ploan  l8t  Scrgt. 

W.  .1.  Pf.ples 2d  Serpt. 

J.  T5.  Bornef t 8d  SergL 

J.  P.  Unit 4thSerEn 

Wm.  McN'obb l,t  Corpl. 

A.  K.  Hams".v 2d  CorpU 

O.  C.  Howell Sd  Corpl. 

J.  U.  Ta:ker 4th  Co  pi. 


Drummer. 
Fifer. 


J.  L.  RodR-rs. 
Allen  Griffin... 


Adams,  J.  R. 


Adams,  n.G 

Ailau)8,  R    B 

Abliit,  M.  D 

Br-ffks,  J.  W 

Brown,  Oliver..  . .. . . 

Bilew,  Jacob 

Bryson,  W.  0 

Sryeon,  J  L 

Barnetf,  T.  A.  R 

BarneU,  S.  L 

Baswell,  A.  C 

Brohop,  J.  M 

Brindio,  J.  B 

Burtashaw,  J.    F.  M. 

Brarablitt,  A.  N 

Carder,  Kin-ey 

Carder,  .T.  L... 

Camp,  Eli.xs 

Clearlam.  Wm 

Cross,  .John 

Cros.',  Frank 

Edmondson,  T.  P 

Ellard,  .lejitha 

KUard,  .1.  M 

Field,  J.J 

Griffin,  D.  M 

GritGo,  Stea ven 

Greer,   'ohn 

Greer,  Joseph      . . . . 

Graves,  W.    I 

Hall,  1'.  F 

Hall.R.L 

Jlumphras,  D.  E  . .. 

Hooper,  J.  A. 

Horn,  T.  M 

Uarapton;  J.  R , 

Hemb  ec,  A.  J.  .. 
Hembree  James  M. . 
Harrison,  D.   W   ..., 

Johnson.  J.  R 

Johnson,  A.  0  .^^. 

JuDkin,  D !wc. 

Logging,  J  f  B 

Loony,  Joe 

Leomrd,  B.  F 

Lxtch,  J    H 

Mariin.  V.  B 

Martin,  .'■■.  B 

McDnnnel,  A.  A.. .. 
Mcnonnel,  V.  A  ... 

Nl.ii,  A.  C 

Bobbins  J.  .T 

Raper.  M.  V 


Private. 


Stephen",  Jas 

Shannon,  Wm.. 
Sparks,  J  M... 
S  rinKfield.  T.  J. 
Skilton,  F.  M  ... 
Shields,  O  VT... 
Thomas.  W.  C. . . 

2 


Keuarks. 


Elected  Major  Jan.  27,  '62.    Pro.  It.  Col.  May  12. 18C2. 
F.lect-^d  C.tT'tain  Jan.  27, 18;2.    Killed   at  the  battle  manassas, 

Ausust  :n,  1SC2. 
Acting  *dj1   July  3.  ISCl,     Resigned  June,  1862. 
Elertfd  Ist  Lieut  J.-in.   28,   1S62.     Elected  Capt.  Sept.  9,   1S63, 
I     vice  Jackson,  killed. 

nispharjed  atcump  Partow,  Va.,  August  27,  lS6t. 
'Ele  ted  3d  Lieut.  July  7, 1S-62.     Sept.  9,  elected  id  L'.etlt. 
(Ele.-ted  ad  Lieut  from  0.  S,  PeptemberP,  18C2. 
jF.Iected  31  Lieut.  Jan.  2S,  and  1st  Li-  ut  Fept.  9, 1:62. 

Wounded  s>  verelv  at  mwlvern  li  11,  July  1,  1S62. 

Elected  3d  Lieut. 'in  Co.  P,  2-2d  Ga.  Hegt.  October  20, 1S6J. 
]Appoin;e)  2d  Fergt.,  Augus'  27,  l!>r.l. 
jWounded  at  manassas,  August  .3,  1>>(32. 


jDIschar^-cd  February  5,  18:2. 

Appointed  Pergt.  Jan.  23, 1Sfi2,  and  mortally  wounded   at  ma- 

nasus,  AuKustSO,  18G2 — iied  S«pt.  S,  lSr.2. 
Wounded  at  Rappahannock  bridge,  August  23, 1S62. 

Discharged  on  Surgeon's  certificate,  Sept.  23, 1SC3. 


Wonnded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1SC2. 

Mortally  wounded  at  manassas,  August  30,— died  Sept.  15,  13C2. 

D'soharged  July  23, 1S62. 

Mortally  wounded  at  manaesas,  Aug.  -30,  1S62 — died  S.'pt.  5, '02. 


Di»d  at  general  hospilal.  May  13,  lSrr2. 
Wouudei  at  malvern  hill,  July  1,  18u2. 

Di'scharged  bv  reason  of  Substitute. 
Wounried  at  Rappahaenock,  August  2-3, 1S02. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1SC2— lost  left  arm. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1302. 

Wountied  at  m.inassaf,  August  .30,  1S62,   and   at  malvern  hin. 

Wounded  at  tranassas,  .\ugust  80,  1SG2. 


'Appointed  0.  S-,  Sept.  9,  1SC2. 

JApnointed  Ser?t.  Sept.  9.18G2. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1SC2. 

, Discharged  December  24, 1S6!. 


Wounded  at  manass.i?,  Aug.  30,  '62.  Appo.   8i;rg'..  Tec.  1,  1SC2. 


Wonndel  at  RnppahannocJr,  August  23, 1SC2. 


'woindfd  at  mana  sas,  Au^n^t  S'*,  1?6i. 
I  Wounded  a',  manatsag,  August  30, 1362. 

Wo'inded  at  raanassiS,  August  30,  1SC2.     Appointed  5th  Sergf. 

August  10,  1><02. 
Ijied  at  ceotreviUe,  January  27,  1S62. 

1  ischarged  at  Orange  C.  H..  April  C,  1S;2. 

Dischari^ed  at  Kichnord,  .July  10, 1S62. 

A ppoiptcd  Corporal,  D«xember  1. 1862. 


18 


MUSTEB  ROLL  OF    COMPANY  C— (Continued.) 


Names. 

Rakk. 

Bbmarss. 

Private. 

u 
t( 

•« 

Discharged  by  reason  of  Substitute. 

Died  at  camp  Fairfax,  Sept.  2i,  1S6U 
Appointed  Commissary  Sergeant,  August  6,  1S61. 
AppolDle<l  Corporal,  Sept  1,  lS6i. 

Witzcl.  D    K 

WUliam?,  0    W 

Stepp,  B.  J 

Rbcbuits. 

Bi-.hop,  M.  B 

Died  at  Richmond,  Va.,  May,  1862. 
Wounded  at  Yorklown,  April  In,  1S62. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  80,  1S62. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  .3n,  1S62. 
Wounded  atmanassas,  August  30.  1862. 
Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1862, 

Killed  at  manassas,  August  30, 1862. 
Discharged  July  10,1862. 

Croford,  B 

CoIe,D    E 

Doyle,  S 

Ellice,  L-vie 

Ellice,  Lawson 

Fair    E       

Hosev,  B 

Howell,  P.  C 

Died  at  Richmond,  Ya.,  July  2,  1S62. 
Oied  at  Richmond,  Va.,  May  15,  lt;62, 
/Cilled  at  manassas,  August  SO,  1SG2, 

Lothridge,  Wm 

Martin,  J 

Subsl'tute  for  T.  P.  Edmon.'son  wounded   at  manassas,  Augos 

80,  1S62. 
Discharged  July  10, 1362. 

Moss,  W.  Q 

Mulk.'V,  n 

Nations  .1.  R 

Oliver,  John 

Died  July  5, 1862. 
Died  July  10, 1862. 

Parker,  B 

Rider,  G.  W 

Sprinf;fi>-ld,  J 

Scott,  P., 

Smith,  J.   R 

Smith,  G.  B 

Stratton,  J.  W.  0 

Wounded  at  malvern  hilt,  July  1, 1362. 
Wounded  at  Rappahannock,  August  23, 1862. 
Discharged  July  13  1862. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30,  1862. 

Terry,  G.  W 

Wounded  at  maoassas,  August  80,  1862. 

Walker,  Ben 

Mortally  wounded  atmanassas,  Aug.  30,  '62— died  Sept.  2, 1861. 

Hawks,  W.  P 

Died  at  Centreyille,  Va.,  January  85, 1862. 
Hied  at  Richmond,  July  10,  1S62. 

Reed,  A.J 

Conscripts. 

Bagwell,  A.  J 

Coleman,  J 

Transferred  from  3d  Tenn.  Regt.,  December  17, 1862. 

• 

Carrol,  Edward 

19 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  B. 


S.  C.  Dibbs 

W.  T.  Noblett.... 
T.  R.  Tranimell.. 
Nathaniel  Parris. 


D.  W.  Garrett. 


A.  P.  Cisidy...  . 
J.  W.  A.  DilHrd.. 
A.  W.  Itrown.. .. 
W.  H.  Ilcnson.   . 

J.  W    Cartel 

A.M.  Morris 

J.  Q.  GrocDwoodi 


J.  E.  Alsebrook. . 
W.  J.  Carter...    , 

W.  11  Carter 

Bldreil  Cornet... 

W.  C    I?rown 

William  Collace. 

J.  Carter 

S.  J.  Collice 

Daniel  Cirroll. . 
J.  L.  Chapteen. . 
H.  B.  DaTenport. 

J.  E.  Davis 

Samuel  Uunn.. . 
T.  B.  Davenport. 
W.  M.  DentoD.. 


John    Ellett 

M.  B.  Gaddis 

J.  W.  llensly 

J.  C.  Uolbroolr 

M.  V.  Johnson . 

Woody  Lawson  . . 
James  Mashburn. . 

S.  0.  Uoberson 

Jam-'s  S  urjohn. .. 

J.  M.  Thomas 

B.  M.    Tilly 

W.  A.  Ti'.ly   

William  Thomas... 
I.  L.  Tramnell.  . . . 
B.  M    Ualerwood. 

A.  J.  Woo.iy 

Franklin    Watson. 

W.  E.  Garrett 

P.  A.  Stroud 

A.  M.  Stroud 

Noah  Mario w. .  . . 
W.  K.  niiylock... 
Barny  Painter 


List  of  Recruits. 


Captain. 
1st  Lieut. 
2d  Lieut. 
8d  Lleur. 

1st  Serg>. 

2d  Sergt. 
81  Sergt. 
4th  Sergt. 
1st  Corpl. 
2d  Corpl. 
Sd  Corpl. 
4th  Corpl. 

Private. 


Resigned  bis  office,  October  5, 1SC2. 
Promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant,  October  7, 1SG2. 


Wounded  at  malvern  hill,  Julyl,  1SC3.    Wounded  at  manassis, 
1     August  80, 1S6>. 
Wounded  at  Rappahanneck,  August  23, 1S62. 

Discharged  August  20,  1861. 

Discharged  August  IB,  1861. 


Promoted  to  2d  Lieut.,  October  7,  '62— wounded  at  Rappiha^- 
nock,  August  27,  1862. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1S62. 


Killed  at  Rappahannock,  .August  23, 1S62. 


John  Crowder 

D.  A.   R   Ailn  ... 

John  Alin 

O.  W.  Prince 

W.  D    UiUard 

James  Tucker. . . . 

E.  W.  .«raith 

n.  B.  Thomas 

William  Carter.. . 
J.  J.  Rnhetson. .. 
John  Whilener.. 
J.  M.  Parrlsh.... 

J.  11.  Hatly 

E.  Wish-n 

M.  W.  Johnson. . . 

A.  J.   llite 

D.  Gadilis 

K    M.  Carter 

W.  E.  Alin 

Thomas  York.. . . 
Thomas  Ueadlln. 

N.  J.  Gaddis 

J.  W.  Parris 

W.  H.  Gwln 

John  0.  Denhett.. 


iWounded  at  manassas,  August  80,  1862. 


20 


MUSTER  ROLL  OP  COMPANY  E— (CouUnued  ) 


3.  M.  Ellg 

Vrancls  Ell's 

Jessee  Masliburo 

J.  A.  Key  Holds 

J  .  K.  hi  i' 

D.  A.  K.  Alin 

J&me?  IJiuer 

S.  H.  Guiun 

J.  W.  Slupherd.... 

J.  K.  Brown 

W.  W.  Greenwood. 

J.  n.  Legg 

U.  D.  Let'i'.     

J.S   l.e^'g. 

L.  B.  L  gt! 

W.  D.  Leifg 

WilliaTi  M.  Bennett 

Mc  Fran  is       

J.  1).  Iluckabee  — 

A.  C   TliiMiias 

J.  Pailiam 

Alfred  Thompson... 

J.  A.  Moore 

J»hn  Pitman 

J.  G.  UlHjlock 

W.  D.  B:ill 

J.  B.  Johnson 

W.  A.  Johnson 

P.  M.  lluckabee 

J.  H.  Trammell 

A.  K.  Brown 

1).  L.  Shule 

J.  G.  hroci 

J.  L.  Brock- 

J   M.  Kngland 

A.  J.  Gappln 

Mf.  Norris 

W.  B.  Linzy 

Jfieeph  lUper 

John  RoBers 

A.  K.  Sla'e 

T.  M.  Jones 

W.  C.  Slate... 

U.  T.  Uovenporf .. . 


Private. 


Wounded  at  Ihoroajhfare  gvp,  .\uga;t  '28,  1862. 


Killed  at  Rappahannock,  August  23,  18C2. 
Wounded  mortally  at  manassas,  August  SO,  1S63. 


Wounded  at  manassas,  Angost  SO,  1SC2. 


21 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  K. 


Nambs. 


G.  W.  Wimberly. 

E.  S.  Stoke? 

K.  It.  Fudgp.:... 
R.  F.  Mann 


Rank. 


Captain. 
jlst  Lfeut. 

'2d  Lieut. 
iBvt.  -id  Lt. 


Remarks. 


Died  June  21,  1S62. 

llcsigned  November  25,  1S6I. 

Promoted  to  '.st  Lieut.  Nov  27,  1801,  to  Capt.  June  21,  1S62. 

Promoted  to  1st  Lieut.  June  24, 1S02.     Resigned  July  20,  1S62, 


J.  D.  Choate 

J.  R.  Holms 

J   D.  Lune 

It  F.  Boon 

1).  II.  Hillimon 
G.  \y.  Nelson . . . 

E.  E.  DivJcs 

James  Gjode.. . 


R   Adams 

O.  A.  Alden 

II.  Amirong 

W.  II.  Diiskins.... 

H.  L.  lirvan 

C.  S.  Bryan 

T.  M.  Bmgy 

W.  L.  Burgy 

J.  P.  Belvin 

G.  W.  Chancy.... 

T.  B.  Chancy 

L.  II.  Chambers.. . 

W.  M.  Cofiuld 

M  illiam  U  Dollar. 
M\  E.  Dool  ttle.... 
William  D^awdy. . 

H.  P.J)lDitl 

P.  n.T)el,mar 

J.  II.  Everett 

F.  II.  Everett , 

J.  A.  Everett.   

T.  W.  E.bank> 

J.  M.  Frodiriek... 

G   W.  Fudce 

S.  H.  Fitz-;erald.... 

U.  C.  G^tes     

William  J.  Holton. 

Joel  Hue^in? 

David  Jamestown. 

R.  King 

J.  D.  Kinif 

Benj    Keaton 

M.  W.  Lominac 

T  C.  Lane 

J.  T.  Liverilt, 

II  J.  Maddo.\ 

H.  W,  .Mann 

M.  M.  .Ma^hborne.. 

William  Martin 

A.  T.  Nel'on 

John  Nelson... 

U.  E    Olli-er 

J.  II.  P  ddy 

W.  D.  Pierce 

J.  A  Roquemore., . . 

8.  C.  Price 

William  Stri  kling. . 

John  Story 

William  R.  t-tory... 

J.  H.  Talton 

J.  T.  Tally 


H.  W.  Thomas.... 

Mathew  Thorp 

0.  Whitehurst 

T.  O.  \vhitehur8t-. 

J.  A.  White 

T.N.White 

J.  T.  Walker 

F.  M.V'^lker 

R.  II.  Watson 

J.  B.  Wat?on 

J.  0.  Wa  son 

C.  .M.  Wheeler.... 
Isaac  Whitehead.. 
J.  II.  Warren .  . . . 
Thomas  Speight... 
O.  W.  Bolan 


;  1st  Sergeant. 
]2d  Sergeant. 
•3d  Sergeant. 
1th  Sergeant 
jlst  Corporal. 
:2d  Corporal. 
13d  Corporal. 
4th Corporal.  Discharged  August  S,18G2,  by  order  of  War  Department. 

Private. 


Discharge'!  August  11,  1S62. 

Discharged  October  3,  1861. 

Discharged  >rtvcmb  r  'iTj,  ISfil. 

DUcharcred  b.v  substitution,  February  5, 18C2. 

Disch8r;;ed  August  10,  1SG2. 

Piomoted  to  yj  Sergeant  November  25,  1S61. 


Fromoted  to  1st  Corporal,  August  14, 1862. 

Appointed  2d  Sergt.  Sept.  ISCl,  elec.  1st  Lieut.  July  81,  lSf2. 
Dlschargad  May  8,1802. 
Discharged  May  2S,  18C2. 
I 

Elected  2d  Lieutenant,  June  24,  1862. 
Appointed  Ist  Sergt.  ?ept.  13, 1S6I;  elected  3d  Lieut  Nov.  2T,  '«!. 


Discharged  August!,  1861. 

Dlschnrged  August  1, 1S61. 
Died  December  24,  1S61. 


Dischargfd  August  1,  1S61. 

Discharged  July  8,  1862. 

Discharged  July  8,1862,  because  of  wcunJsrecd.  at  malvem  hill. 

Transferred  to  59th  Rcgt.  Ga.  vols.,  promoted  to  Lieutenant. 

Discharged  January  25,  1S62. 
Promoted  to  Corporal,  August  8,1862. 

Discha-ped  August  1,  1861. 

Wounded  at  manassas,  August  30,  1862,  app.  Corpl.  Jan.  1,  1868. 

Promoted  to  Sergeant  Ma-ch  3, 1862. 

Promoted  Corporal  March  8,  1-62,  and  to  Sergt  March  3,  1862. 
Killed  in  action  at  manassas,  Aug.  30,  1^62. 
Promoted  December  2o,  1862. 
Dsscharged  December  20,  1862 

Discharged  August  1,  1861  • 
Discharged  August  1,  1861- 
Died  August  25,  ls61. 
Discharged  October  5,  1861- 

Discharged  November  S.  1861. 

Pro,  to  Corpl.  Aug.  8,  '62,  wounded   at  manassas  Aug.  30,  1S82. 
died  September  27,  1862. 

Died  November  2'',  1861. 
Died  December  20,  1S61. 


Promoted  to  Sergeant,  December  2,  1S61. 

Discharged  September  1, 1801. 

Discharged  October  1, 1S61. 

Died  Oct.  6,  '62,  of  Wpusds  received  at  manassas  Aug.  30. 1838. 

DiedMay  24,  ls62. 

Died  August  10, 1861. 


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MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  K— (Continued.) 


Names. 

Raitk. 

RSMAItlkS. 

George  II  White 

Private. 
II    • 

Discharged  April  9, 1862. 

Augost  28, 16G1,  manassas. 

AuKuat2S,  1*01,  manassas. 

Aug.  28, 'CI,  manas.    Pro.  Corpl.  Nov.  25, 'CI.   Sergt.  Aug.  1, 'C2. 

Augi^28,  1SC1,  manassafl. 

August  'JS,  IbCl,  manassas. 

August  211,  IS61,  manassas. 

August  2H,  1S61,  manassas. 

Au^■ust  2s,  18C1,  ma.  assas. 

August  2S,  ISUl,  manassas 

August  28,  1861,  manassas— discharged  August  8, 1801. 

August  28,  1861,  manassas. 

August  28,  1861,  manassas— discharged  November  25,  1861. 

August  28,  1861,  manassas— died  September  27,  1861. 

August  28,  ISCl,  manassas— died  October  25.  IbCl. 

August  2S,  1861,  manassas— died  September  24,  1861. 

August  28,  1861,  manassas— discharged  September  24, 1861. 

February  4,  1862— substitute  for  B.  F.  Boon. 

Mirch  15  1862 

RECBI'ITS. 

M.  V.  Avery 

H.  C.  Hurgy 

J.O.Bid ... 

G.  W.  Bird 

G.  K.  Kooks 

W   G.  Sikes 

K  h.  Sikt-8, 

George  Skipper 

W.  S.  Taylor 

P.  A.  White 

O.  W.  Watson 

M.C.  I'ierce 

R   C   Cribbs                  

J.  C.  Butler   

.March  2,  186i. 

J.  T.  Hendricks 

W.  M.  Barker 

April  80  1862— wounded  at  manassas,  August  30, 1S62. 

.May  28,  1862. 

May  28,  1862. 

May  28, 1S62— died  August  l'\  1862. 

May  28, 1862— Killed  in  action  at  manassas,  August  80, 1S62. 

May  28,  18C2. 

May  25, 1862. 

-May  28,  1862.                                                                      » 

May  26,  1862. 

May  23,  1862-dled  August  6, 18C2. 

May  28, 1862— died  July  8,  1862. 

July  .5,  1862. 

July  5,1862. 

July  5,  1862. 

James  Bell 

W.  Dees 

A.  A.  Watson..    

Malhew  Watson 

Willis  Taylor 

J.  H.  W.ngate 

M.  A.  W^atrice 

L.  WhiltoD 

B.  B.  Yates 

July  5. 1862. 
Ju  y  5,  1862. 
August  8,  1862— Bnbstitute  for  D.  11.  Uoliman-died  Dec.  15,  '62. 

T.  S.  Belvin 

October  T,  1862. 

G.  W.  Watson 

May  5, 1882— died  December  24, 1S62. 

23 


MfSTER  ROLL   OF  COMPANY  G. 


Names. 


Bank. 


J.  Y  Wood Capta'n. 

J.  Guthrie Ist  Lieut. 

K.  H.  Little 2d  Lieut. 

J.  M.  Jackson Bvt.  2d  Lieut 


RCMAIIKS. 


Wounded  slightly  in  battle  of  roanasaas,  August  80,  1S62. 
Appointed  Q.  M.,  November  1,  ISGl. 

Prom«ted  1st  Lieut  ,  Nov.  1.'62,  vice  Guthrie  appointed  Q  M. 
Promoted  2d  Lieut.,  Nov.  1, '61,  vice  Little  promoted  Itt  Lieut. 


W  H  HarreUon Igt  Sergeant.  [Discharged  because  of  disease.  Aug  1861. 

J  H    McWlUianw 'jd  Sergeant.! Appointed  Ist  Serct.,  May  1, '€2,   vice  Little  discharged,   and 

I  I     elected  Brevet  2d  Lieut.  Joly  11.  '02,  vice  Kussel  pro.  2d  Lt. 


3d  Lt. 


J.  V.  Little 31  Serpeant  Klected  1st  Sergt.  Aug.  'GI,  and  disiharged  May  1, 1&62. 

.T.W.Hill..!!!'.. 4thPergeant.nisch.Trged  August  12,  1S62. 

E.  L.  Easterling i»t  Corporal.lAppointed  1st  Sergt.  July  11,  'C2,  vice  McWiIliams  pro.   . 

I     Slightly  wounded  at  battle  of  nianassas,  August  ^o,  Ifctii 

W.  N.RusseL 2d  Corporal.  Elected  Sd  Lt   Nov   1,  '61,   elected  July   11,   '62,   vice  Jackson 

]  I     elected  1st  Lieutenant. 

J.  r.  Wood 3d  Corporal.  Discharged  July  26, 1S61. 


B.  M.  Clark .Ith  Corporal. 


John  Akin 

B.  W.  Bailev 

J.  N.  Bell 

B.  F.  Blackburn. . . 
B.Boa', 

C.  L.  Burns 

D.  H.  Brooks 

V.  P.  Bomar , 

E.  A.  Bomar 

M.  C.  Cantrell..  . 
W.  V.  Cassada..., 

A-  J.  Cargal 

Benjimn  Clark... 

I.  L   Cox 

G.  M.  Cox 

n.  G.  Cowan 

B.  F.  Crain 

W.  8.  Dobson 

B.  -M.  Dunn 

Joshua  Dunagan. 
A.  II  Eisterling. 
J.  E.  Eslinger.. .. 

II.  Findley 


Private. 


J.N.  Fry 

G.  W.  Gentry.. 

J.  F.  Green 

fi  F.  Green 

F.  L.  Head 

J.  L.  Harris 

N.  L.  Harris 

E.  A.  Howell 

H.  H.  Hamilton 

M.  Hester 

M.  D.  L.  Henderson 

W.J.  HilL 

H.  H    Hill 

B.  J.  Huggins 

Henry  Hul8?y 

J.  H.  K  eler 

S.  KeAp 

Or.  A.  Keener 

M.  C.  Lawrence 

N.  V.  LAwrence 

J.  W.  Love 

E.  M.  Mayfield 

Nealy  McCarlhur 

R.  B.  McClure 

J.  T.  McCornell 

D.  P.  McCornell 

R.  T.  McConniel 

J.  M.  McNair 

John  McMair 

C.  W.  McWiillams..: 

F.  A.  McWiillams 

J.  M.  A.  Miller 

H.J.  >  lUer 

J.  K.  Miller 

J.  L.  Miller 

W.  S    McLaIn 

G.  W.  McGahaha 

SV.  8  Murray 

B.  F.  Neal \ 


Appo  ntcd  2d  Sergl.  Ju'.y  11,  '62,  vice  Easterling  promoted  1st 
Sen  t.  and  wounded  in  right  arm,  severely,  before  Kichmond, 
June  29,  1862. 

;)ischarged  October  10,  1861.  „„  ,-, 

Wounded  seriously  in  thigh,  at  battle  of  manatsas,  Aug.  80.,  62. 

Wounded  slightly  in  shoulder,  In  battle  manaesas,  Aug.  30, 1S62. 


Discharged  because  of  di««s8e,  August  30, 1862. 
Dischaged  because  of  disease,  September  20,  l86l. 


Dlscha'-ged  August  29,  1861,  bec.nu.=«  of  extreme  age. 

Hected  .31  Sergt  Aug.  15,  '61,  killed  in  bat  raanafsiis  Aug.  80  62 

Wounded  severe!}  in  thigh,  in  batt  t-  of  manas^as,  Aug.  30,  '62. 

Discharged  because  of  disease,  Aagnst  20, 1S61. 

Wounded  slightly  in  arm,  In  battle  of  manassas,  Aug.  30,  1S62. 

Die-I  at  Cha'  lottsville,  Va.,  November  17, 1662 

Foot  shot  oft  at  malvern  hill,  July  1,  '62,  sent  to  general  hospt'J. 

I     and  not  heard  of  since. 

Killed  in  battle  of  manasas,  August  30,  1S62. 

promoted  to  Adjutant.  June 6, 18^2.  ' ' 

.Substituted  by  Nealy  McCarthur,  December 20,  1S61. 
Died  in  camp,  February  5,  1S62. 

Killed  in  battle  at  mana.'sas,  August  30,  1S62. 

Died  in  hospital  at  Uichmoni,  Va  ,  April  1.,  Ic62.      •* 

Discharged  August  12,  l(-62. 

Killed  in  battle  at  manassas,  August  .30,1862. 

Wounded  in  battle  at  manassas,  August  30, 1662, 


ApDointed  4  h  Cirpl  July  11,  '62,  killed  at  manas.,  Aug.  80,  '62. 
Killed  in  bat  le  at  malvern  hill,  July  1,  1862. 
Dlscharg  d  on  acco  nt  of  b^eing  woun  ed. 


Slightly  wounded  in  battle  at  manassas,  August  .30, 1802. 
Died  in  hospital  at  Richmond,  Va„  March  14,  1S62. 

Wounded  at  Garnett  farm,  Va  ,  June  27,  1S62. 
Killed  in  battle  at  manassas,  August  30, 1862. 

Slightly  wounded  !n  battle  of  manassas,  August  30,  1SC2. 


Died  In  hospital  at  Richmond,  Va  ,  September  1, 1S61. 


.Appointed  4th  Corporal,  September  10, 1«62. 

Died  from  wounds  rec^d.  in  battle  at  malvern  hill,  July  1, 1S62. 

Wounded  severely  in  arm,  at  battle  manassas,  August  -30.  1862. 


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UUST£R  ROLL  OF   COMPANY  G— (CooUnaed  ) 


Nahts. 


W.  n.  H  Orr 

O.  V.  I'crrv 

J   W.  I'llcbcr 

W.  E.   Mylam 

U.  V.  Puryear 

II.  C.  Knnisoy 

A.  J.  KeeJ 

Jordan  Rt-ed 

Abel  R'rti^r  ison.. . 
^villiam  K'ct'ardbon. 
G.  W.  Ki-hiirdsrn... 
I'.u'us    Kichar  isoo. . 

J.  II.  Robtrl? 

J.  A.  W.  K.  berls... 
Jo  eph    Robln'on... 

K.  r>.    Uob'n-on 

G,  C.   L  aihe'wood 

a   W.  Sampson 

T.  D.  Sampson 

W,  H.  Shahan 

W.  L.  Shalt uck 

Jeffers  n  J.   J-ni'.th. . 

P.  B.  Staples 

J.  A.  Story 

t.  Ptie 

S.  C.  T^lly 

J.  W.  Tonpleton 

J.  II.  T  pt  n 

.'.  C.   T.j-tetl 

B.  J.  T  iwnsand 

R.  K.   ^"ells  

J.  D,  Wilkioson 

J.  M.    AVi  son 

J.  S.  C,   Wilson 

t.  K.  Wilson 

G.  W.  Witherspoon. 
J.  H    Wiiherspoon. . 

U.  C.    Wlitc 

Ancel  Wiight 

H.  A.  Russell 

A.  J.York-.    

A.  T.   Coryell 

J.  A    SwinRon 

D    V.  Brown 


Bank. 

RB>IABKt. 

PrWrnte. 

'• 

Kl'.led  In  battle  at  manarsas,  August  tO,  1862. 
Discharg  d  June  1,  lS<-2. 

1             u 

1           t> 
1         « 

Wounded  Bcrlou-ly  In  balt'e  at  jranassas,  Auffust  00,  1363. 
Wounded  In  battle  of  malvcrn  hill,  July  1,  1862. 

1     " 

Wounded  slight'y  in  battle  at  nianassss,  August 30,  18G2. 

1    :: 

Died  in  >  capital  aH'ctersbu'p,  N'ay,  1862. 

Wounded  seriouiily  lu  arm  in  battle  at  manassas,  Augu&l  30,  CS. 

1    :: 

Discharged  because  of  dsease,  August  SO,  1861. 

fi 

Appointed  4th  Sergeant  July  11, 1802. 

jKilled  In  battle  al  man^ssas,  August  30,  1802. 

]Dlel  August  15, 1861. 

[Taken  luiioner  at  Williamsburg,  May  4,  e.xchangcJ  Sept.  24,  '62 


Appointed  4th  Corporal,  Oct.,  1SG2,  vice  McLain  promoted. 


D^ed  in  hospital  at  Richmond,  Va  ,  because  of  disease,  Aug.,  '61. 

Api>  4  h  Corpl.  Dec.  13,  '61;  killed  at  manassas,  Aue.  30,  I  02. 

Died  from  wound  received  a.t  malvern  h'll,  July  1, 186:'. 

Di'cha'-i!:^d  in  fopterai'or  l^-fil. 

Die  i  in  hi.spittl  at  llichmonil,  Va  .  M.iy,  1862. 

Appo  nled  &th  Sergiant  in  July,  1802. 

Appointed  let  Corporal, Octob'r  15,  1S02. 

2d  "  "         "      " 

Sent  to  general  hospital,  Jlay  5,  '62— not  hrard  from  since. 


25 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF    COMPANY  B. 


Names. 

Ea\k. 

Remarks. 

John  W-lstokei 

Captain. 
1st  Leiut. 
■id  Lelut. 
Bvt.  id  Lt. 

1st  Pergeant. 
21  Str^eant. 
3d  Serjeant. 
4lhffrK;ar  t. 
Ist  Corporal. 
■Jd  Corporal. 
3 J  Corpoial. 
4lh  Corporal. 

Private. 
.< 

;; 

(t 
(1 

William  C    (iill   ..   

H.  It.    Lipsey 

George  Kinbrougb 

Resigned  his  offi-p,  December  11,1861. 
Promoted  to  1st  Lieutcn.^nl,  December  1!),  1801. 
Promoted  to  2J  Lieu  enant    December  19,1861. 

Woonded  slightly  in  knee.ind  .shoulder,  at  manaFS.-is,  Au?.  30  '62. 

O.  B.  Mavo 

A.  W.  Paikcr 

SatriHcl  L.  Su  livant  

Stephen  J  I.  Williams 

William   G.  Cross 

Reduced  to  lar.ks  S-c|it.  1,  '01,  and  substituted  by  L.  A.Drcnan. 
Pr  nio'ed  to  Brevet  21  Lieutenant,  November  0,  1S62. 
Prrinioted  to  3d  Sergeant,  January  1,  1?63. 
K'ducrd  tn  ranks,  by  choi  e,  February  4,  ISO  !. 
Promoted  to  Sergeant  ani  color  bearer,  Augu.ot  12,  1S63. 

C.  1'.  Gill 

Jas.  jr.    Watson 

Promoted  to  .'3lh  Sergt.  Jan,  1,  "63,  wouti.  at  manas.  Aug.  8^,  '62. 
Promoted  to  1st  Corioral  January  1,  1803. 

Uustlr,  G.    \V 

Crnclter,  Thomas  J 

Wounded  at  battle  of  manassas,  August  30,  lt62. 

Davi?,J.   L 

Dormany,  W.  P 

Gi'.l,  RobcTt 

Gill.  G.  M 

Wounf'ei  at  battle  of  manassas,  August  ."0,  1E02. 
Wounded  at  battle  of  manassas,  August  80, 1862. 

Wounded  slightly  on  head,  at  battle  of  manassas,  Aug.  30,  '62. 

Gill,  J.   J     

Uairis.  Wro 

Hat&eld,. lames  0 

Wounded  at  malvern  hill,  July  1, 1862. 

Hall,  J.   J 

Wounded  at  battle  of  chickah'^mlny,  June  28, 186?. 

Uaytlip,  C.   G 

Haysrp,  B.G 

Prora<ited  to  2d  Brevet  Lieut   liec.  19,  61,  resig'd.  Nov.  6, 1S62. 
Woun'ied  at  batUe   of  Uappuhannock,  August    21,  lS62;pro.  to 

3d  Corporal  January  1,  18fi3.                               « 
Promoted  to  4th  Corporal  January  1, 18C3. 

lllckey,  \Vm 

U  Iiler,  James  M 

Wounded  si'ght'y  in  leg,  at  battle  of  manassas,  Aug.  30, 18C2. 
Wounded  slightly  in  shoulder,  at  battle  of  manas  ,  Aug.  80,  '62. 

Promoted  to  2d  Corporal  July  3, 1862. 

J  hnsoD,  W.  U 

Kely,  J.  K 

Kinscy,  James  E 

Lune,  L.   11 

Meadow?,  J.  G 

Manion,  Jftlin 

Wounded  In  arm  at  battle  of  manassas,  August  GO,  1SC2. 

Parnell,  G.   B 

Reynolds,  A  J 

Richardson,   J 

Chores,  Wm 

Tison,  Cicero 

Tsylor,  J.  E 

Wa'en  K.   J 

Wilkcrson,  E 

WilkersonJ.  W  

Promoted  to  23  Sergeant  December  10,  1861. 

WilisG.  R 

Yawn,  George. . 

Reckuits. 
Barnes,  R.   S 

Wounded  in  leg  at  batt'e  of  Rappahannock,  August  21,  1SC3. 

Eowen,  W.  S 

Wounded  f  lightly  in  leg  at  battle  manassas,  August  30, 1863. 

Bower,  N.M 

Cat  Hon,  Enoch 

Cumm  ngs,  P.  W 

Crocker,  J.  W 

Davis.J,  W 

Daughlry,  J.   Q.  A 

Ilatfi' Id,  Joseph 

Hatfield,  John  S.. 

Kinsey.J.   H 

Wounded  slightly  in  face  lu  battle  manassas,  August  30, 1862, 

Light  001,  O.  E 

Mil!  ,  Tom^s  J     

Wounded  slightly  In  arm  at  battle  of  manassas,  Aug.  SO,  18G2. 

McLendcn,  Thomas  B 

M-J.ei'^on,  A.J 

Mcl/endon,  D..    

McMnhan,  S.  K 

, 

McDon.ld,  J.  T 

McDonald,  Wm..   

Porch,  Milton 

26 


MUSTER  ROLL  OF  COMPANY  B  —(Continued.) 


NiMEi. 


Banden,  W.  Y 

Splllers,  William  C. . 
Wllherlngton,  J,  W. 
Wltheringlon,  J.  11. 

DiSCnABGED. 


Avery,  James.    . 

Adam<.  W.  J 

Cook,  T.  M 

Daughtry.  Wm  . 
Denman,  Wm... 
Dennis,  I!,  i  .. . . 
Denman,  L.  A.   . 

Gilbert,  J.  R 

Gill,  Peter  P 

Hooks,  E.   B 

Kirkpatrl.k,  J,  J. 
Eaton,  Jam  s  W. 
King,  J^mies  J. . . 

Johnson,  11    

Varnaiiore.W.  A. 
Spence,  James... 

Sellers,  R.  M 

Ticnor,  U,  A 

Williams.  W.   J . . 


Died. 

Abhriton,  William  L. 

Abbrllon,  M  J 

Tison,  Janb 

Hayslip,  Paul  F  .. .. 
Bo  liford,  William   A. 

Sharpless,  I.  L 

Barwlck,    N 

Yawn,  James 

Hayslp  G.  B  

Cross,  James   W. ..    . 

Anderson,  W.  C 

Clatworthy,  Jas.  T... 
Ktng,  William  N...  . 
Mount,  James  M  .. . . 

M<;Lendon,  G.  W 

Hu.gins.J.   H 

Clem,  Thomas  J   

Price,J.    R 

Marsha'l,  Thomas  J . . 

Wllkerson,  Y.  S , 

Cowart,  John , 

Hays,  Aaron 

Grey,  Thomas 

Shores,  J.   A 

Ruth,  W.  A 


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Rem^rcs. 


Discharged  at  camp  bartow,  Va.,  August  24, 1661. 
Kischarged  at  Culpeper  Courthouse,  September  15,   1S61. 
DLcliarged  Septembers,  Ift61. 
Dicharged  August  13,  1S61. 

Dscharged  July  Sl.l^ei. 

i>ul'8'.itute  forG.  B.  Mayo  — discharged  May  16, 18C2. 

Discharged  Septeraljcr  '-i,  lSt)l. 

Discarged  September  25,  ISCl. 

Uischarg;dD.cemberl3,  1S61. 

Discharged  August  S,  18G2. 
Discharged  December  30,  1861. 
D  8,  barged  Augu^t  24,  1861. 
Di.-^cbarg-i)  December  13,  1861. 
D  bcliarged  July  2-,  1S62. 
Di8cha't;ed  August  4, 1SC2. 
Disicharged  August  10,  18(52. 
Discharged  September  7, 1862. 


Died  August  11,1861. 
"      15,    " 
"      26,    " 
Sept.  15,         " 
"      22,         " 

Nov.    8,         " 
"      21,         " 
Feb.  ic,  1862. 
Die.  29,       1861. 
"      80, 

March  11,  1S62. 
April   186'. 

"  15,  1862, 

May  14,    " 

June2M,    " 

July  16,    " 

■    .lui.elD,    " 

'    July  18,    " 

'    Aug.    8,    " 

'    D^c.  11,    " 

'    January  7. 1SC3. 

S'.|)teniber  7,  1S62. 
'    S-pt.  4,  '02,  of  wound  reced.  at  manassas,  Aug  30, 1?62. 
'    Sept.  2U,  '62.  of  wound  reced.  at  manassas,  Aug  8'>,  1S62. 


K[  1ST  O  Pt  Y 


ELEVENTH  REGIMENT  GEORGIA  VOLUNTEERS. 


The  Eleventh  Regiment  Georgia  Volunteers,  comprising  the  fore- 
going organization,  was  mustered  into  service  by  Major  L.  C  Ihoun, 
at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  on  the  third  day  of  July,  1861,  and  embarked 
immediately  for  Virginia.  At  Richmond,  we  were  quartered  in  the 
new  fair  grounds,  awaiting  orders,  drilling  and  preparing  for  the  im- 
portant future,  until  the  loth. 

There  has,  perhaps,  been  no  time  since  our  enlistment  during  which 
the  members  of  this  regiment  manifested  such  a  general  spirit  of  dissatis- 
faction; such  restlessness  under  restraints;  such  murmurings  at  author- 
ity, and  such  complaints  against  the  intolerable  hardships  of  the  war,  as 
during  the  brief,  bright  period  of  our  sojourn  at  the  new  fair  grounds. 
We  drew  abundant  supplies  of  commissary  stores,  had  delicacies  in 
great  quantities,  sold  for  moderate  prices  within  our  guard  lines  ;  were 
convenient  to  as  good  water  as  the  State  affords  ;  were  securely  pro- 
tected from  disagreeable  weather  by  comfortable  tents,  provided  with  a 
profusion  of  blankets,  equipped  with  numerous  changes  of  raiment, 
and  favored  with  cool  shades  under  which  to  recline  during  our  lazy 
hours;  notwithstanding  all  of  which  we  yet  spent  much  time  in  dolor- 
ous repinings  over  the  hardships  of  soldier  life.  "  We  had  enlisted 
to  fight  Yankees,  not  to  sweep  yards,  clean  away  trash,  stand  guard  in 
the  rain,  and,  in  short,  embark  in  a  general  system  of  doling  drudgery; 
and  then  to  be  compelled  to  ask  a  white  man,  no  whiter  than  our- 
selves, for  a  pass  in  order  to  go  beyond  the  guard  lines,  was  sucn  a 
discount  upon  the  gentlemanly  estimates  we  had  formed  of  our  gen- 
tlemanly selves."  All  these* sad,  insupportable  disasters  caused  us  to 
bend  our  anxious  thoughts  and  longing  hearts  towards  the  quiet, 
pleasant  homes  we  had  so  incautiously  forsaken.  Such  is,  no  doubt, 
the  experience  of  most  soldiers  in  the  service.  The  trying  ordeals 
through  which  we  have  since  passed  will  reveal  themselves  in  their  order. 

I  cannot  say  I  have  many  regrets  to  express  in  contrasting  the 
regiment  then,  with  the  regiment  now.  Then  we  could  not  realize 
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that  severe  hardships,  arduous  labors  and  disagreeable  privations  were 
imperious  military  necessities ;  now  vre  recognize  them  as  justly 
inevitable,  and  bear  them  with  resolution  and  fortitude.  Then  our 
minds  were  full  of  regrets  for  the  sundered  ties  of  home  ;  now  our 
homes  are  the  tented  field,  our  ties  the  brotherhood  of  the  array. 
Then  we  cherished  hopes  of  a  speedy  peace  from  the  repentance  or 
conquest  of  the  enemy  or  the  intervention  of  foreign  powers  ;  now 
we  are  resigned  to  a  war  of  indefinite  prolongation,  and  satisfied  that 
our  only  and  all-sufficient  dependence  for  success  reposes  in  the 
**  stout  hearts  and  strong  arms"  of  Confederate  soldiery.  Then  we 
were  coiijident  of  triumph  against  equal  numbers  with  similar  advan- 
tages ;  now  that  confidence  is  ripened  into  practical  experience  and 
mathematical  certainty.  Then  we  were  untutored  in  the  severe  school 
of  the  battlefield;  now  the  music  of  fluttering  shells  and  Avhistling 
balls  is  as  familftir  as  the  voices  of  those  we  loved  at  home. 

On  the  evening  of  the  15th  we  took  passage  in  box  cars  (previously 
appropriated  to  the  transportation  cf  horses,)  up  the  Alexandria 
railroad,  and  having  reached  Manassas,  journied  thence  to  Strasburg, 
at  which  place  we  arrived  late  in  the  afternoon  of  the  succeeding  day, 
and  found  it  a  modest,  neat  little  village  of  about  800  inhabitants, 
peeping  out  of  the  forest  of  surrounding  mountains  like  a  violet 
from  the  depths  of  a  jungle.  A  short  time  after  sunrise  on  the  17th, 
we  began  our  first  march,  on  foot,  to  Winchester,  a  distance  of  eigh- 
teen miles ;  and  a  wearying,  disagreeable  tramp  it  was.  The  sun 
shone  warmly,  and  the  cruel  government  had  provided  us  with  no 
umbrellas;  clouds  of  floating  dust  almost  stifled  our  breathing,  and 
certainly  succeeded  in  soiling  our  clean  clothes  and  faces,  and  the 
hard  macadamised  road  wore  ugly  blisters,  on  our  tender  feet;  but 
night  found  us  at  the  point  of  destination,  and  requited  our  toils  with 
deep  and  peaceful  slumbers.  The  next  day  the  Army  of  the  Slienan- 
doah,  under  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  evacuated  Winchester  and 
moved  ofi"  to  form  a  junction  with  and  reinforce  General  Beauregard, 
preparatory  to  the  great  Manassas  battle.  Our  blankets  and  knap- 
sacks were  deposited  in  Avagons  and  we  joined  the  brigade,  then  under 
command  of  Colonel  F.  S.  Bartow,  and  marched  on  in  the  grand 
military  procession.  All  night  long  the  steady  tramp  was  heard,  and 
the  moving  multitude  was  seen  ciowding  along  the  depths  of  the 
Shenandoah  valley.  Occasionally  a  loud,  merry  laugh  would  break 
upon  the  lonesome  breeze,  and  anon  the  music  of  songs  we  had  heard 
in  happier  days,  came  swelling  through  the  midnight  air,  suggestive  of 
home,  and  friends  and  bye-gone  days,  and  the  dim,  dark,  dreary  dis- 
tance we  had  drifted  from  them,  at  which  the  mind  recurred  with  sweet 
and  soothing  melancholy  to  the  "  singing  of  the  songs  of  Zion  in  a 
strange  land." 

About  daylight  we  halted  at  Paris  for  an  hour's  rest.  Notwith- 
standing our  blankets,  overcoats  and  most  of  our  coats  were  in  the 
wagons,  and  the  morning,  like  mornings  generally  in  this  latitude, 
was  cool,  and  although  we  had  been  Avitiiout  rations  for  near  twenty- 
four  hours,  yet  the  necessity  for  rest  and  repose  had  become  a  ruling 
passion,  and,  in  a  few  moments   the  roadside   and  sidewalks  were 

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literally  lined  and  covered  with  a  sleeping  army.  In  the  course  of 
the  day  we  reached  Piedmont,  and  late  in  the  afternoon  drew  rations 
and  broke  our  long  fast.  Arrived  at  Piedmont,  the  army  began  to 
take  passage  for  Manassas.  Owing  to  a  collision  of  the  cars  three  regi- 
ments of  our  brigade,  including  the  Eleventh,  were  left  there  until 
the  22d,  and  did  not,  therefore,  participate  in  the  battle. 

As  I  am  writing  the  history  of  a  regiment,  and  will  hereaftor  have 
no  reason  to  make  any  but  incidental  references  to  the  remainder  of 
tlie  brigade,  I  take  occasion  here  to  observe  that  Avhile  I  recognize 
with  emotions  of  pride  the  death-defying  gallantry  which  has  been 
manifested  by  our  troops  from  every  State,  and  on  almost  every  bat- 
tlefield— and  would  net,  therefore,  be  understood  as  drawing  invidious 
distinctions — I  must  be  permitted  to  remark  that  our  brigade,  com- 
prising the  Seventh,  Eighth,  Ninth  and  Eleventh  Georgia,  and  First 
Kentucky  regiments,  and  after  the  disbanding  of  the  latter,  the  First 
Georgia  regulars,  have  not  been  excelled  by  any  connected  with  the  ser- 
vice in  patient  endu-ancc  under  hardships,  and  manly  courage  on  the 
field  of  battle.  Colonel  Anderson,  who  commanded  the  brigade  during 
the  stormy  campaign  of  the  past  year,  and  of  whom  more  will  be  said 
hereafter,  has  been  proud  to  see  the  stern  elements  of  his*own  mar- 
tial nature  reflected  by  such  a  soldiery. 

As  before  intimated,  on  the  morning  of  the  22d,  we  took  passage 
by  railroad,  and  reached  Manassas  late  in  the  forenoon,  many  of  us 
compelled  to  take  seats  on  top  of  the  crowded  cars  and  endure  a  cold 
and  constant  rain.  After  arriving,  we  waded  through  six  miles  of 
mud  and  Avater  and  camped  in  a  low,  ponded  place  on  the  northern 
margin  of  the  battlefield,  without  the  least  possible  protection  from 
the  falling  weather.  Our  tents  had  been  left  at  Winchester,  and  we 
afterwards  held  it  quite  a  seal  of  veteranship  that  during  the  balance 
.of  the  month  we  remained  at  that  locality  with  no  covering  but  blue 
skies  and  angry  clouds. 

On  the  2d  of  August  the  regiment  moved  to  and  established  what 
was  subsequently  designated  "  Camp  Bartow,"  to  the  right  of  the 
Alexandria  railroad,  three  miles  above  Manassas.  Here  we  remained 
for  more  than  a  month,  rendered  unfit  for  duty  by  the  prevalence  of 
measles.  Unfavorable  weather,  uncomfortable  hospital  tents,  no  dis- 
infectants, and  almost  no  physic,  were  circumstances  which  caused  the 
disease  to  rage  with  moi-e  than  ordirViry  virulence.  Day  after  day  did 
the  indefatigable  Means  (now  considered  one  of  the  best  surgeons  in 
the  service)  move  among  the  tents,  administering  words  of  cheer  and 
the  best  relief  in  his  power  to  the  languishing  and  afflicted ;  while  the 
wise,  experienced,  sagacious  and  kind-hearted  Colley  stood  ever  at  the 
door  of  his  hospital,  spectacles  riding  his  nose,  and  bearing  in  front 
a  stomach,  whose  huge,  ponderous  and  corpulent  protrusion  denoted 
that  it  had  been  the  cemetery  of  many  generations  of  pork  and  col- 
lirds,  compelled  from  sheer  necessity  (Sangrado-like)  to  prescribe  on 
the  paper  he  held  in  his  hand  "  C,  M."  pills  and  a  solution  of  diluted 
bread,  to  make  measles  break  out,  and  a  like  dose  of  diluted  bread  and 
"  C.  M."  pills  to  scatter  the  eruption. 

On  the  1  Ith  day  of  September,  the  sickness  being  somewhat  abated, 


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we  pulled  up  stakes,  moved  northward  ten  miles,  and  pitched  our  tents 
near  Pine  branch.  About  ten  o'clock  that  night  the  line  was  formed  and 
the  regiment  marched  off  to  Fairfax  Station,  a  distance  of  four  miles, 
through  darkness  so  dense  we  could  not,  much  of  the  time,  see  our 
hands  before  us,  and  a  rain  of  which  I  can  furnish  no  adequate  de- 
scription, except  by  inserting  the  homely,  but  emphatic  observations 
of  a  fellow  soldier,  as  we  stood  dripping  over  a  fire  after  the  comple- 
tion of  our  march.  "I'll  tell  you,  mister,"  said  he,  "  that  was  a  rale 
scrougin  rain.  The  cluud  hit  kum  bulgin  over  us,  and  the  wartcr  hit 
commenst  a  drappen  outen  them  ar  little  gimblct  holes  what's  bord 
through  the  bottom  to  let  the  rain  orft,  when  all  of  a  suddent,  the 
cloud  hit  jossclled  up  agin  somcthin  and  upsot,  and  spilt  hitself  right 
all  in  among  us,  and  hoop  !  how  the  thunder  and  lightnin  did  have  to 
jump  to  git  outen  the  cloud  afore  it  hit  the  yeath,"  The  enemy  not 
having  advanced  to  meet  us  as  was  expected,  we  returned  the  next 
morning,  and  four  days  afterwards  moved  up  and  camped  on  the  Brad- 
dock  road  one  and  a  half  miles  from  Fairfax  Court-house.  From  this 
point  we  went  to  Falls  church,  a  distance  of  twelve  miles,  to  discharge 
our  first  picket  duty  during  the  25th.  On  our  arrival  we  were  met  by  the 
exciting  inti^lligence  that  the  foe  had  marshaled  his  cohorts  and  was 
advancing  in  force.  We  tore  down  fences  and  other  coverts,  removed 
obstructions  from  the  front,  aligned  ourselves  in  a  tenable  position, 
and  awaited  the  anticipated  advance.  But  with  the  exception  of  a 
foraging  party,  which  was  repelled  and  dispersed  by  two  pieces  of  the 
Washington  artillery,  supported  by  the  9th  Georgia,  no  enemy  ap- 
peared on  that  occasion.  On  the  night  of  the  27th,  a  flank  movement 
being  apprehended,  our  pickets  were  drawn  in.  At  the  time  the  orders 
came,  six  companies  of  the  regiment  under  command  of  Capt.  Stokes, 
were  occupying  Nutt's  hill,  three  miles  above  the  church.  Their 
clothes  Avere  wet  from  the  effects  of  a  rain  that  afternoon,  the  weather 
had  cleared  off  cold  and  windy,  and  their  proximity  to  the  Yankee 
lines  being  such  (about  three  hundred  yards)  as  to  render  it  impera- 
tively necessary  to  observe  the  utmost  stillness,  the  order  to  fall  back 
was  of  course  agreeable,  as  it  put  in  motion  the  benumbed  and  shivering 
limbs  of  the  soldiers.  Captains  Stokes  and  Luffman  having  completed 
the  discharge  of  their  duties,  had  just  before  taken  temporary  quar- 
ters in  a  hut  near  the  line,  and  tliere  they  remained,  overlooked  by 
the  courier,  and  wholly  unconscious  of  the  exodus  of  their  commands, 
cracking  jokes  and  spinning  yarns,  until  long  after  the  hill  had  been 
abandoned  to  the  enemy.  But,  per  gratia,  the  darkness  of  the  night, 
the  sluggishness  of  the  foe,  and  the  genial  influence  of  their  own 
^ucky  stars,  they  escaped  uncaptured  and  rejoined  their  companies 
before  the  regiment  left  Falls  church.  After  falling  back  three  and 
one-half  miles,  we  halted  near  daybreak,  at  the  junction  of  the  Alex- 
andria and  Fairfax  roads.  During  the  day  the  enemy  occupied  the 
church,  and  late  in  the  afternoon  rumors  of  an  advance  were  confi- 
dently circulated.  But  the  enemy  came  not,  and  having  lain  on  arms 
for  three  days  awaiting  their  arrival,  our  relief  came  and  we  repaired 
to  camps.  The  seasons  of  quietude  which  occur  at  occasional  inter- 
vals of  our  history,  as  they  are  occupied  in  drilling,  standing  guard, 


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cooking,  washing,  and  going  t'lrougli  tlie  usual  monotony  of  camp 
life,  possess,  of  course,  no  features  -which  are  noteworthy,  and  must, 
therefore,  be  treated  with  silence. 

The  cold  season  was  now  approaching,  and  on  the  15th  of  October 
the  process  of  concentration,  preparatory  to  the  coming  winter,  was 
begun.  Signal  rockets  having  gone  up  long  ere  the  break  of  day,  the 
roll  of  drums  from  field  and  forest,  hill  and  hamlet,  for  miles  around, 
summoned  the  drowsy  army  from  their  peaceful  slumbers,  and  indicated 
that  important  designs  were  marked  out  on  the  military  tressel- 
board.  Our  regiment  was  formed,  remained  in  position  until  after 
daylight,  and  then  broke  ranks,  ate  breakfast  and  once  more  went  on 
picket.  The  position  assigned  us  in  this  instance  was  six  miles  above 
Fairfax  and  about  two  to  the  left  of  the  Anandale  road.  The  army 
was  now  retreating  to,  and  massing  around  Centrcvillc,  and  a  corres- 
ponding change  in  the  outposts  became  therefore  necessary.  Accord- 
ingly the  next  morning  we  were  ordered  in,  and  having  passed  through 
Fairfax,  we  camped  for  the  night  at  Germantown,  an  antiquated  vil- 
lage, situated  one  mile  to  the  west  of  Fairfax.  The  subsequent  day 
was  devoted  to  the  removal  6f  valuables  from  the  latter  place,  and  our 
regiment  was  detained  to  protect  the  transportation.  In  the  afternoon 
General  "Wadsworth,  the  recently  defeated  candidate  for  Governor  of 
New  York,  with  a  force  of  infantry  and  cavalry,  advanced  within  half 
a  mile  of  the  Court-house.  Couriers  hurried  to  and  fro,  the  long  roll  ' 
was  beaten,  and  expectation  stood  tiptoe  for  a  raid,  in  which  the 
redoubtable  General  would  unquestionably  have  been  caged,  but  he 
cautiously  retired  without  making  any  additional  demonstration. 
About  dark  we  took  up  the  line  of  march  down  Little  river  turnpike, 
again  attended  by  that  disagreeable  companion,  a  continuous  and 
pouring  rain.  At  some  points  the  road  was  slippery,  at  some  boggy, 
and  at  others  the  yielding  soil  seemed  beaten  into  a  sort  of  musilagi- 
nous  batter,  thus  affordifig  a  varietv  which  romantic  individuals  might 
torture  into  "  the  spice  of  life."  Far  be  it  from  me  to  envy  those 
fancy  gentlemen  the  exclusive  enjoyment  of  all  such  "  spices."  After 
trudging  about  eight  miles  we  halted,  built  large  fires,  and  began  to 
dry  our  clothes,  rest  our  limbs,  and  repose  our  faculties  with  compa- 
rative comfort,  when  the  regiment  was  again  called  into  line,  moved 
back  two  miles  in  the  direction  we  had  come,  and  having  thrown  out 
pickets,  "  hove  to"  for  the  night.  The  next  day  we  established  picket 
posts  (No.  8)  near  the  residence  of  Mr.  B.  F,  Cockerille,  four  miles 
above  Centreville,  to  which  latter  place  our  tents  having  preceded  us, 
we  repaired  two  days  afterwards  on  the  arrival  of  a  relief. 

The  regiment  continued  to  discharge  picket  duty  at  the  position 
here  referred  to  during  occasional  intervals  of  the  ensuing  winter  ; 
but  nothing  of  general  interest  having  transpired  on  either  of  these 
occasions,  I  forbear  to  give  them  additional  mention.  As  the  neighbor- 
hood was  not  infested,  nor  even  threatened  with  Yankees,  afforded 
quantities  of  cheap  provisions,  fire-wood  in  abundance,  and  moreover 
some. charming  and  musical  specimens  of  the  sweeter  sex,  it  is  not  to 
be  wondered  at  that  their  recurrence  ^rew  in  favor  with  the  soldiers 
and  became  quite  a  holiday  pastime.     On  the  26th  of  December,  the 


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regiment  moved  out  on  Oti)  run,  two  miles  from  Centixville,  l)egan  to 
put  up  as  comfortable  huts  as  the  facilities  at  command  would  allow, 
and  went  into  winter  quarters.  And  there  being  housed  with  tolera- 
ble snugness,  supplied  with  wood,  convenient  to  water,  and  nourished 
\}j  a  reasonable  quantity  of  "  table  comforts,"  I  leave  them  to  hiber- 
nate, and  while  sitting  around  cheerful,  blazing  fires,  regardless  of 
drifting  snows  and  howling  wind.-  without,  to  beguile  the  long  winter 
evenings  with  the  narrative  of  hopes  cherished  and  exploits  accom- 
plished, until  Spring  shall  again  begin  to  awaken  sleeping  vegetation, 
and  summon  the  dormant  world  to  life  and  action. 


CHAPTER    II. 

"While  the  men  remained  in  doors,  I  will  proceed  to  notice  some 
important  changes  which  were  taking  place  in  the  government  of  the 
regiment,  a  portion  of  which  I  advert  to  somewhat  out  of  their  chronolo- 
gical order,  to  prevent  the  necessity  of  a  future  interruption.  Col. 
Anderson  assumed  command  of  the  brigade,  which  he  has  ever  since 
retained,  having  been  commissioned  brigadier-general  in  November 
following.  Major  Goodc's  health  failing,  he  resigned,  and  on  the  2Tth 
of  January,  1862,  Capt.  Luffraan  was  elected  his  successor,  and  with 
the  exception  of  a  brief  interregnum,  commanded  the  regiment  until 
wounded  subsequently  in  the  second  Manassas  battle.  Lieut.  Col. 
Guerxy  had  found  the  rough  fare  and  irregularities  of  camp  life  poor 
sanatives  for  a  diseased  and  failing  constitution,  and  was  necessarily 
off  duty  almost  all  the  time.  He  was  in  command  at  the  l)attle  of 
Winn's  mills,  and  behaved  gallantly.  During  the  retreat  from  York- 
town  he  resigned,  and  Major  Luffman  was  promoted.  Both  of  these 
gentlemen — Col.  Gucrry  and  Major  Goode — were  generous,  honorable 
and  urbane  gentlemen,  and  bore  enviable  shares  in  the  esteem  and 
confidence  of  the  regiment. 

Before  fixing  a  period  to  this  bevy  of  detached  items,  it  will  not  be 
amiss  to  insert  a  brief  paragraph  with  reference  to  Major  Loftman, 
who  is  destined  to  be  our  pilot  through  seasons  of  peril  and  scenes  of 
carnage.  The  Major  is  a  cozy  old  bach,  reaching  hard  towards 
forty,  and  possesses  withal  a  very  presental)le  contour,  lie  is  indif- 
ferent to  danger.  He  speaks  quickly,  thinks  independently  and  acts 
decisively.  In  social  intercourse  he  is  frank,  disingenuous  and  quite 
communicative  ;  to  the  men  of  his  command  indulgent  and  reasonable, 
and  to  the  orders  of  his  ranking  officers  all  obedience — provided  those 
orders  happen  to  correspond  with  his  preconceived  opinions.  lie  is 
a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  has  figured  successfully  on  the  political 
arena.  .  ^ — , 


On  the  Sth  day  of  March  moving  orders  were  issued,  accompanied 
by  the  announcement  that  Gen.  ly^cClellan  was  pressing  hard  upoti 
our  rear  and  flanks  with  overpowering  numbers.  Hitherto,  amid  all 
the  vicissitudes  the  regiment  had  undergone,  we  managed  to  preserve 


a  sufficiency  of  clotliing,  Llankcts  aud^^its.     Now   transportation 
was  furnished  to  officers  al^ne,  and  that  umlcr  circumstances  Avhich 
denoted    that    the    recovery    of    tlie    articles    transported    would    bo 
indefinitely  postponed,  and   attended  perhaps  v.ith   very  considerable 
risks  and  disadvanta;;es.     Piivatcs  were  coniperied  to  abandon  every- 
thing they  could  not  carry.    We  were  gradually  becoming  more  deeply 
involved  in  the  severe  trials  and  rough  usages  of  war.     Our  friends  in 
Georgia  cannot  possibly  form   anything  approaching  to  an  adequate 
conception  of  the  weather  which  was  before  us,  and   the  condition  of 
the  roads   along  which  we  were  compelled  to  travel.     Our  march  lay 
through    Gainsville   and   Warrenton,   by  Warrcnton    Springs,  and  to 
Culpeper,  which   place  we  reached  on  the   11th,  and   rested  for   threo 
days.     From  Culpeper  we  proceeded  to  Orange,  where  we  arrived  and', 
pitched  our  tents  near  MontpeliGr,.the  former  residence  of  President   ^^ 
Madison,  on  the  17th,  after  hiving  crossed  the  Rajjidau  on  bridges  we 
had    constructed   of   Avagons.     Although,    as   I   have    intimatdl,    the^ 
weachcr  still  remained  cold  and  gloomy,  blankets  were  seen  scattered: 
everywhere  along  the  road,  lightened. from  shoulders  no  longer  able  tO' 
bear  them.     Much  of  the  officers'  clothing  and  most  of  our  tents  were^ 
never  afterwards  heard  from.     The  regiment's  sojourn  at  Orange  was,, 
therefore,  coupled  with  more  than  the  ordir.ary  schedule  of  privations.. 

About  sundown  on  the  Gth  of  April  we  were  ordered  to  be  ready  to- 
*'■  move  in  lijzht  marchini^  order,"  and  '•  at  a  moment's  warninjx." 

The  expression  ''  light  marching  order,"  has  never  since  been  used' 
by  our  commanding  officers.  From  that  date  we  have  had  no  facili- 
ties for  moving  in  any  other  manner.  Like  the  grave  and  dignified' 
terrapin,  we  were  doomed  thencetorth  to  bear  upon  burdened  back;? 
the  sum  total  of  our  earthly  possessions.  It  is  needless  to  observe- 
that  being  lightened  of  so  much  ballast  we  were  ready  ever  afterwards 
to  *'  move  at  a  moinent's  warning." 

A  little  after  dark  tlie  regiment  left  camp  for  the  direction  of  Frede-  ■ 
ricksburg,  passed   through  Orange   Court-house,  took  the  [qiiondivn) 
plankroad,  kept  up  the  march  until  nearly  day,  and   then   lay  downt 
by  the  road-side  and  stole  an  hour  of  balmy,  sweet,  refreshing  slum- 
ber.     We  were  up  with  the   sun  and  again   pelting  the  mud  with  our- 
feet.     At  10  o'clock,  A.  M,,  we  halted  and  rcinained  stationary  moro    • 
than  twenty-four  hours,  snow,  rain  and  sleet  falling  the  while  in  rapid 
alternations,  and  presenting  a  painful  exhibition  of  the  fierce,  lelent-- 
less   anger    of    the    savage,    ill-temi)cred    and    intractable    elements. 
About  noon  that  day,  the  orders   under  which  wo  had  been  marching' 
were  countermanded,  and  we  "facod  to  the  rear,"   obeyed  the    '"for-      . 
ward  march,"  and  although  oceans  of  mud  and  water  intervened,  and. 
the  ground  on  every  hill-side  mms  sufficiently  slippery  to  have  put  the- 
blush  of  shame  upon   the  cheeks  of  a  raw-hide,  yet  avo   reached   our- 
quarters  that  afternoon  by  making  the   distance  of  sixteen   miles   id 
less  than  four  hours.     The  blockade  had  now  been  run.  and  our  regi'-- 
ment  received  in  large    supplies    the    genuine    article  of  northern) 
weather.     We  had  but  few  axes  and  wood  was  growing  scarce  and  in-- 
convenient  around  our  caiiips.     Under  these  circumstances  we  spent 
the  next  two  nights  in  nodding  over  fires  that  furnished  but  poor  pro— 
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tection  against  the  sharp  hitin;]^  -winds.  On  the  night  of  the  llth, 
the  rcginit-nt  took  the  train  for  Kichmond,  Bidding  a  "longum  vale"'  to 
onr  fiw  jcniaining  tents  and  the  most  of  the  scanty  conveniences  wo 
had  theretofore  heen  able  to  preserve  Having  bivouacked  at  Cainp 
Winder  for  two  dajs,  we  took  passage  down  James  river  on  the  13th, 
and  di-cinhaiked  the  next  forenoon  at  King's  Landing,  from  whence 
we  in:irohei  eight  miles  down  the  Yorktown  road  and  stopped  for  the 
night. 

The  next  day  we  travelled  only  a  mile,  and  the  succeeding  morning  wo 
resumed  our  march  towards  the  front  of  General  Magruder's  line.  The 
regiment  had  gone  but  a  short  distance  when  Colonel  Guerry  carried 
it  into  the  woods,  ordered  the  men  to  divest  themsulves  of>^cvery thing 
not  necessary  in  actual  battle,  leave  a  sufficient  guard,  and  push 
rapidly  forward.  The  order  was  obej'ed  with  alacrity.  "We  struck 
up  a  double  (juick  in  the  direction  of  Wynn's  Mill,  antl  soon  reached 
a  point  at  which  random  shells  begun  to  whistle  around  us.  Presently 
our  route  led  in  open  view  of  the  Abolition  battery,  stationed  at  Dam 
No.  1,  which  opened  fiic  upon  us  with  some  energy,  but  its  missies 
eung  harmlessly  through  the  trees  above  our  heads,  and  in  a  few 
moments  we  were  lost  to  Yankee  view  in  the  contiguous  forest. 
About  five  hundred  yards  beyond  Dam  No.  1 ,  the  regiment  was  ordered 
to  "halt,"  "front,'  and  rest  in  place.  We  had  not  remained  in  this 
position  long  before  a  rapid  and  heavy  volley  of  musketry  immediarely 
"to  the  left,  admonished  us  that  the  battle  had  begun.  The  seventh,* 
accompanied  by  Colonel  Anderson,  came  charging  furiously  by  with 
Bhouts  that  rung  audibly  tlirough  the  forests  for  miles  around.  Occu- 
,pying  the  position  we  did,  it  was  the  duty  of  our  regiment  to  have 
remained  in  the  rear  as  a  reserve  for  the  IGth  Georgia.  But  without 
■waiting  for  a  word  of  command  the  line  was  formed,  guns  loaded,  and 
officers  and  men  moved  forward  to  meet  the  enemy.  After  advancing 
about  two  hundred  yards  we  suddenly  came  upon  and  entered  the  riile 
pits  constructed  by  General  Magruder  from  one  end  of  tho 
line  to  the  other,  wliere  we  remained  during  the  entire  evening  in 
mud  and  water  more  than  half  •knee  deep.  And  now  tbe  battle  begun 
to  rage  with,  great  ar:d  increasing  fury.  In  a  locality  peculiarly 
adapted  to  the  transmission  of  sound,  the  shrill  treble  of  musketiy 
and  the  coarse,  harsh,  bass  of  artillery  blent  in  mighty  unison — a 
Bobmn,  gvaiid,  imposing  concert — an  aj)propriate  requiem  for  the  fal- 
len brave.  Stationed  along  an  inward  curve  of  the  pits  with  a  wide 
pond  stretching  to  the  front,  our  position  Avas  not  easily  accessible  to 
the  enemy,  whose  lines  were  wholly  beyond  the  reach  of  our  Spring- 
field muskets.  So,  Avith  the  exception  of  a  few  scattering  volleys 
from  long  range  guns,  avc  bore  no  share  in  the  perils  of  the  occasion. 
Night,  at  length,  ended  the  battle,  and  sent  the  discomfited  Yankees 
hov.'iing  back  to  their  kennels.  [  For  casualties  in  all  the  battles,  see 
muster  rolls.  ] 

The  reader  will  remember  that,  before  moving  out  upon    the  line, 

•The  Yankees  had  got  possession  of  ourpits  opposite  Dam  No.  I,  but  this  charge  routed 
and  dispersed  tbcat. 


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"we  had  been  corapollcd  to  abandon  our  overcoats  and  blankets.  So 
here  wc  were,  thoroughly  wet  from  the  knees  down,  with  neither  firea 
nor  permission  to  build  them,  to  saj»  nothing  about  the  absence  of  ra- 
tions. But  we  managed  to  live  through  that  as  we  have  through  many 
other  such  occasions  pince.  The  regiment  remained  along  this  part  of 
the  line  during  the  balance  of  the  month,  drinking  filthy  Avater  and 
living  on  barel^'-  enough  rations  to  keep  souWnd  body  together,  and 
Ihey  composed  of  beef  ami  bread  without  either  grease  or  salt. 
Our  pits  and  the  Yankees'  were  within  five  hundred  yards  of  each  other, 
and  the  interveningfiwamp.s  aflfurded  fine  facilities  for  guerrilla  shoot- 
ting,  which  was  carried  on  daily,  almost  hourly,  between  the  parties. 
A  good  portion  of  the  time  we  occupied  a  position  opposite  Dam  No. 
1,  where  scarcely  ahead  was  raised  above  the  embankment  without 
being  fired  at,  while  the  sas.^y  Yanks  dealt  copiously  in  "  slack  jaw" 
to  the  "sacafrac  tea  drinking"  "  conscript"  rebels.  Our  orderly  ser- 
geants had  drawn  rifles,  ami  some  other  of  the  men  borrowed  long 
range  guns,  with  which  they  would  sit  in  the  pits  the  live  long  day 
watching  for  and  shooting  at  the  neighborly  Unionists.  This  amiable 
interchange  of  sanguinary  compliments  resulted  in  the  reception  of 
occasional  wounds,  and  the  infliction  of  at  least  as  many  as  were  re- 
ceived by  our  marksmen  Our  manner  of  life,  during  the  period  under 
consideration,  was  to  occupy  the  pits  every  other  day  and  night,  and 
devote  the  remainder  of  our  time  to  working  on  fortifications,  bleeping 
and  drying  our  clothes,  for  the  sympathetic  clouds  wept  almost  daily 
over  us  and  our  misfortunes. 

Were  we  not  entitled,  oh  !  lachrymose  and  lugubrious  reader,  to  re- 
gard ourselves  as  a  "  houseless,  homeless  and  forsaken  '  set;  the 
*•  children  of  raisfortuue,"  "  foot-balls  of  fate  "  and  "  victims  of  ad- 
versity?'' But  we  cheerfrdly  obeyed  the  dictates  of  duty  "uncaring 
consccjuences  "  k>oon  after  dark,  on  the  4th  day  of  May,  our  regi- 
ment began  the  slow  process  of  clearing  the  pits  and  retreating  to- 
wards the  capital.  All  nightlong  we  moved  through  darkness  so  in- 
tense, and  bogs  and  fens  so  numerous  and  trouble.-ome,  that  memory 
itself  grows  sick  and  weary  in  the  retrospection.  In  the  forenoon  of 
the  ne.xt  day  wc  reached  YN^illiamsburg,  a  town  whose  venerable  appear- 
ance, whose  ir.ouldering  and  dilapidated  tenements,  with  their  antique 
structure,  tempt  the  observer  to  regard  it  as  the  self-same  city  that 
was  built  by  Cain  soon  aft.cr  his  banishment  from  the  parental  pres- 
ence. Having  halted  on  the  outskirts  of  town  two  or  three  hours,  we 
continued  our  march  hearing,  as  wc  moved  along,  the  roar  of  tlie  V^il- 
liamsburg  battle  wh.ch  was  then  progressing.  The  regiment  reached 
Burnt  Ordnance  late  in  the  evening  where  wc  spent  a  night  of  sound, 
deep  sleep,  though  troubled  by  another  wattiry  visitation. 

About  noon  the  next  day  our  stiff  and  weary  limbs  were  again  put 
in  motion.  In  the  heavy  work  of  dragging  along  sluggish  feet,  tha 
evening,  at  length,  wore  away,  and  night — dark,  cloudy  night — camo 
on,  but  brought  no  "rest  for  the  weary."'  Onward  pressed  the  panting 
mnltitude  through  dense  copse,  woods  and  deep  ravines;  now  wading 
a  bold  gully  branch  ;  now  falling  over  an  invisible  obstruction,  and 
everywhere — all  along  the  lonely  dismal  route — one  never   ceasing 


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bog.  Tuc  march  had  been  prosecuted  too  long  ;  the  power  of  endu- 
rance taxed  too  severely.  The  strongest  nerves  begun  to  relax,  tho 
stoutest  resolutions  to  I'altcr.  GradauUy  the  ranks  became  thinned. 
Stalwart,  muscular  men  now  grown  faint,  helpless  and  exhausted,  lay 
in  numbers  along  the  damp  ground  by  the  wayside,  and  when  at  length 
the  order  to  halt  was  given,  more  than  half  the  regiment  had  melted 
away.  Morning  came,  and  the  reported  pursuit  of  the  enemy  com- 
pelled us  to  retrace  our  steps  along  tho  same  gloomy  road,  and  lie  on 
arms  near  Burnt  Ordnance  at  i.ight.  During  the  next  day  (7th,)  a 
detachment  of  ten  men  and  one  non-commissioned  officer  were  sent 
out  from  each  company  to  hunt  up  and  press  in  provision<^.  The  re- 
sult of  their  labors  was  the  accjuisition  of  a  number  of  stock  hogs  and  a 
quantity  of  beef,  the  meat  of  which  was  broiled  on  fire  coals  and  greedily 
devoured  without  either  salt  or  bread.  A  regiment  of  epicures  could 
not  have  feasted  upon  an  oriental  banquet  with  more  all-consuming 
gusto  than  these  hungry  rebels  exhibited  over  this  elementary  diet. 
About  ten  o'clock  the  succeeiling  forenoon,  we  reached  New  Kent 
Court  House,  where  our  gentlemanly,  attentive  and  energetic  Com- 
missary, Captain  IlockenhuU.  met  us  with  pack  horses  bearing  the 
long-delayed  and  much  desired  rations.  At  sun  down  we  again  took 
the  Richmond' road,  and  once  more  was  the  sanctuary  of  night,  through 
its  long  and  lonesome  watches,  invaded  by  the  constant  footfalls  of  a 
restless  soldiery.  On  the  lOth  we  arrived  ac  the  neighborhood  of 
Bottom's  Bridge,  and  were  stationed  at  New  Kent  Cross  iloads,  to 
awair,  the  enemy's  anticipated  avlvance.  But  the  checks  he  had  received 
at  Willi  imsburg  and  West  Point  were  quite  sufficient  to  disappoint  our 
expectations.      We  waited  in  vain. 

On  the  loth,  our  "  On  to  Richmond,"  was  resumed,  und  the  lower- 
ing elements  again  discharged  their  liquid  contents  on  the  drenched 
and  soaking  earth.  Having  halted  two  nights  and  one  day,  on  picket, 
at  ^Middle  Cridge,  we  marched  through  the  environs  of  Richmond, 
and  bivouacked  oa  the  IJ-'th,  three  miles  west  of  the  city,  on  the  New 
Meadow  Brid";e  road.  And  now  that  our  retriment  has  reached  the 
end  of  its  journey,  I  might  pause  and  spend  many  pages  in  detailing 
the  numerous  individual  instances  of  suffering,  distress  and  privation 
undergone  during  the  retreat.  Bowel  afioctions,  with  all  their  debili- 
tating CiTecis  were  universally  prevalent;  produced  by  the  diet  wo 
had  been  compelled  to  eat,  and  tho  exposure  to  which  v^e  had  been  sub- 
jected. Hospital  and  ambulance  conveniences  were  out  of  the  ques- 
tion. To  stop  at  country  houses,  with  the  enemy  closing  up  in  our 
rear,  was,  of  course,  impracticable ;  and  the  sick,  however  sick, 
however  ragged  and  blankctless,  were  compelled  to  plod  along,  night 
and  day,  with  the  regiment,  to  eat  but  seldom,  and  that  of  such  faro 
as  I  have  alluded  to,  without  the  slightest  reference  to  their  infirmi- 
t  es.  Under  such  circumstances,  many  were  compelled  to  throw  away 
their  blankets  and  sleep  in  cold  or  rain  with  their  aching  anj  unpro- 
tected bodies  stretched  along  the  cold  and  comfortless  earth.  I  might, 
I  say,  spend  many  pages  in  tlie  gloomy  recital,  and  j^et  leave  my  task 
unfinished.  But  I  forbear.  I  have  no  penchant  for  groping  through 
such  dark  memories — lefe  them  be  submcri?(M  forever  in  *' the  sullen 


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waters  of  oblivion."  I  have  said  the  regiincnt  hail  reached  the  end  of 
its  journey,  but  it  was  no'.v  only,  as  it  were,  in  the  beginning  of  its 
journeying?.  The  season  for  inaction  had  passsd  away,  and,  like  the 
wanderin^T  Jew,  it  was  doomed  thenceforth  to  be  ever  moving?  with 
restless,  wakeful,  wearying  regularity.  On  the  21st  we  crossed 
Meadow  Bridge,  and  having  gone  about  a  mile  from  the  railroad,  in 
t^o  direction  of  ]\Techanic.sville,  established  temporary  pi(dvet  posts. 
In  the  afternoon  the  enemy's  skirmishers  met  our  cavalry  about  j\ 
half  mile  in  advance  of  us,  and  bri.«k  filing  occurred.  Jaeutenant 
Colonel  Loffman  moved  the  regiment  to  an  eligible  point,  among  some 
bushes  in  rear  of  a  field,  to  the  road  side,  and  placed  it  in  position. 
Here  we  waited  for  the  enemy  until  night,  when,  being  again  disap- 
pointed, we  retired  beyond  the  railroad,  rccrossed  the  bridge  and 
camped  on  Straw])crry  hill.  During  our  stay  here  companies  A  and 
B  were  armed  with  aitillery  carbines. 

^>'e  remained  at  this  place  guarding  Meadow  bridge  and  other 
neighboring  posts,  until  the  3lst,  when  we  began  slowly  to  descend 
Chickahominy,  performing  picket  duty  at  its  various  crossings,  an<l. 
at  length,  on  the  western  lordcrs  of  the  Seven  Tines  battle-field,  unti; 
the  6th  of  June,  wl.en  we  quartered  rather  more  jiermanently,  near 
the  residence  of  Mrs.  Price,  and  imm.ediately  in  rear  of  the  Garnett 
farm. 

About  this  time  the  painful  and  melancholy  intelligence  reached  U3 
that  Captain  Wimberly  had  died  at  the  Park  Ilou^e,  in  Richmond,  on 
the  21st  of  iMay.  Anxious  to  be  ever  at  his  post,  and  fiithful  in  the 
discharge  of  duty,  and  burning  to  engnge  in  the  generous  rivalry  for 
laurels  on  the  field  of  battle,  he  continued  in  command  of  his  com- 
pany (daily  expecting  an  engagement)  until  disease  had  gotten  the 
better  of  his  constitution,  and  (leath  had  nothing  left  but  '.he  assump- 
tion of  an  ea-^y  victory.  Captain  Wimberly  had  graduated  with  did- 
tinguished  honors,  at  Mercer  University,  and  his  brilliant  talents, 
unswerving  integrity,  and  his  zeal,  earnestness  and  energy  in  the 
cause  he  had  espoused,  gave  promise  of  a  life  of  usefulness  and  dis- 
tinction.    But 

''All  liie  promifie  fair. 

Has  sought  the  gruve  t  >  -Ici-p  forever  ilioic" 


.  CIl.-VPTER  IIT. 

The  fate  of  Richmond  now  seemed  pendant  and  trembling  in  doubt- 
ful scales.  The  "flower"  of  the  Northern  army  stood  knocking  at 
her  gates.  The  coil  of  the  anaconda  was  being  pressed  more  closel/, 
more  crampingly  around  the  capital,  and  the  great  heart  of  the  nation 
swelled  and  tlirobbed  under  the  suffocating  embrace.  To  the  Abolition 
Boldiery  the  steeples  of  the  city  were  already  visible  in  the  distance, 
and  being  pampered,  well  rested  and  well  clad,  they  had  no  doubt  of 
performing,  with  ease,  the  long  coveted  pilgrimage  to  this  Mecca  of 
their  idolatry.     But,  alas,  for   the   uncertain   tenure  with  which  we 


grasp  the  future,  its  o])ject3  dancing  before  us  like  panoramic  scenes, 
then  "flitting  from  the  view,"  to  appear  no  more  forever!  Thej 
Trere  destined — many  of  them — like  the  Patriarch  Jew,  to  die,  blessed 
only  with  a  distant  view  of  the  Promised  Land;"  to  die  when  "  their 
eyes  were  not  dim,  nor  their  natural  force  aViatcd,"  and  to  be  left 
where  *'  no  man  knoweth  of  their  sepulchre  unto  this  day." 

We  remained  at  this  point  until  near  the  close  of  the  month,  dis- 
charginpi;  fatigue  and  picket  duty.  Our  quarters  being  in  reach  of 
eeveral  Yankee  batteries,  shells  were  con>tanfly  passing  aroun«l  us, 
and  one  or  two  exploded  within  our  camps,  but  without  doing  any 
harm. 

On  the  25th,  our  army  was  once  more  astir — rumors  were  rife,  and 
all  felt  that  important  events  were  on  the  wing.  The  winds  brought 
to  willir)g  ears  intelligeacc  that  the  great  cojiflict  was  approaching — 
that  the  thraldom  of  Richmond  was  drawing  to  a  period,  and  the  hour 
of  her  deliverance  at  hand.  There  needed  no  prophet  to  predict  this 
result.  The  stern,  patient  courage  and  iron  nerves  of  the  Confederato 
troops,  their  resolution,  which  knew  no  compromise,  and  their  zeal, 
which  could  halt  at  no  half  way  station  were  infallible,  and  Heaven- 
appointed  oracles' of  sue. -ess.  What  withes  or  ropes  can  bind  a  giant 
nation  whose  strength  Ucs  in  resources  like  these? 

In  the  afternoon,  our  regiment  moved  to  the  yard  of  the  Garnett 
farm,  and  posted  pickets  on  the  river,  along  tlie  various  roads,  crossing 
at  conti^iuous  points.  Durinjj  the  ni^rht.  signal  rockets  informed  U3 
that  JACKSON  lay  in  silence  along  I'amunkey,  in  rear  of  the  enemy, 
and  that  the  performances  en  the  grand  programme  were  woiking 
to  "schedule  time."  Next  morninor  the  re^^iment  was  so  divided 
as  to  strengthen  these  picket  posts,  and  prevent  the  enemy  from 
crossing  the  river  by  cither  of  the  roads  referred  to.  Meanwhile,  the 
battle  raged  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Chickahominy  Avith  fierce  and 
fearful  impetuosity. 

The  appearance  of  daylight  on  the  27th,  discovered  the  Yankee 
outpost  in  front  of  us  abarnlcrted,  and  the  bridge  destroyed,  and  we 
spent  most  of  the  day  in  renjodeling  the  road,  and  building  another 
bridge  of  materials  they  had  deserted.  [  Jessee  Hall,  of  couipany  B, 
and  .McConiieil,  of  company  G,  were  wounc^ed  in  the  afternoon  by 
the  explosion  of  a  shell  from  Lfmg  Tom,  posted  on  the  heights  in  rear 
of  us.]  They  shelled  us  while  at  work,  but  did  not  retard  our  labors. 
We  now  began,  cautiously,  to  move  down  the  south  bank  of  the  river. 
In  the  afternoon  of  the  subsecjuent  day,  our  regiment  was  ordered  (in 
connection  \s\i\\  Colonel  Bennings',  which  v^as  already  engaging  tho 
enemy,)  to  charge  a  strongly  fortified  battery,  stationed  in  front  of 
the  Goulding  house.  We  moved  up  rapidly,  in  line,  making  a  double- 
quick  through  the  dense  intervening  thicket,  until  near  the  opening 
commanded  by  the  battery,  when  a  courier  overtook  us,  countermand- 
ing the  order,  and  Colonel  Benning  withdrew  from  the  fiehl.  Kt 
midnight,  six  companies  of  our  legiment  were  required  to  relieve  the 
pi(d-:ets  posted  between  us  and  tho  enemy.  Colonel  Luffman  did  itot 
send  out  these  companies,  but  (according  to  his  custom)  went  with 
them  himself.     He  knew  the  position  of  one  post  and  ordered  tho 


necessary  forc3*  to  possess  it,  after  wiiicli  he  strolled  and  wandered 
about  for  some  time  iti  search  of  the  bahince,  and  at  length  found  one 
of  them,  hut  could  get  no  information  as  to  the  locality  of  any  other. 
lie  accordingly  left  a  relief  there,  andswe.iring  he  "  would  noc  be  any 
longer  marching  about  hunting  hidden  posts,  and  getting  his  men  shot 
by  Confeder;)tc  pickets  in  any  such  way,  and  that  if  officers  wanted 
their  men  relieved,  they  should  come  out  of  their  dens  and  hiding 
places  and  show  themselves.'"  lie  carried  the  remainder  of  the  regi- 
ment to  their  quarters.  On  the  way  he  encountered  (Jolonol  Benning, 
who  seemed  surprised  at  such  a  glaring  infraction  of  orders,  and  en- 
deavored to  dissuade  him  from  his  purpose,  but  with  a  few  eruptions 
of  profanity,  the  spunky  Colonel  held  his  way.  The  next  morning 
we.  moved  upon  the  Federal  eamps  and  breastsvorks  at  the  Guiding 
house,  which  we  found  abandoned  About  them  were  scattered  in 
countless  profusion,  barrels  of  coffee,  sugar,  pork,  beans,  potatoes, 
rice,  blankets,  tents,  clothing,  knapsacks,  haversacks,  cooking  utnisils, 
an'l.  in  short,  almost  anything  a  soldier's  heart  could  ci  ave,  t  >  say 
notliing  of  the  numerous  breastplates,  designed  to  protect  the  sweet, 
delicate  carcasses  of  the  craven,  light-footed  Yankees.  But  we  had 
no  time  to  b:inquet  on  the  tempting  spoils.  In  conjunction  with  the 
contiguous  portions  of  the  army,  we  moved  forward  in  line-of-battle. 
After  going  about,  a  mile,  a  Yankee  battery  opened  on  us,  an  I  we 
halted  ind  prepared  for  action,  but  the  battery  and  its  supports  with- 
drew, and  the  pursuit  was  continued.  Our  march  (to  the  SiVMge 
Station  battle-field)  lay  through  woods  which  affordel  all  possible 
natural  obstructions  to  quick  and  rapid  movements,  but  we  pressed 
closely  upon  the  heels  of  the  enemy,  and  near  sumlown  they  halted 
and  again  poured  a  heavy  and  well-directed  discharge  into  our  ranks. 
To  the  front  and  right  an  infantry  eng;igement  was  progrcs^sing 
already,  and  dispositions  were  made  to  give  us  room  for  a  sliare  in  the 
cooQict.  But  the  interposition  of  night  thwarted  this  purpose  The 
gordian  knot  was  now  tightening  around  tiie  Federal  army,  and  aa 
its  circle  narrowed,  our  regiment,  was  crowded  out  to  make  room  for 
others,  '  We  accordingly  mafched  back  ihiough  darkness  painfully 
intense,  and  the  heavi-st  rain  of  the-  season,  to  the  railroad  opposite 
the  GoMing  house,  at  which  point  we  halted  about  two  o'clock,  and 
rested  until  sunrise,  (3  )th.)  when  wcLiigain  set  out,  and  having  m  irched 
all  day  and  until  three  o'clock  the  next  morning,  lay  d'jwn  on  the  battle- 
field of  Frazier's  farm  to  sleep  amid  the  dead  and  dying,  the  groans 
and  cries  of  suffering  mortals,  our  painful  and  unwelcfime  lull  i'\y. 
•  'n  the  first  of  Jul}',  "  the  enemy  h  iving  been  defeated  in  six  eagage- 

•Tlie  next  'oornin^  a  ^';lnl^•ce  oavnlior,  mmintcl  on  ns  fine  a  sic?d  a'^  ever  in.in  s^uclt 
spur  If  I.  rn.le  up  lo  a  p  tst  tt/cupiel  bv  five  (it  Capt.iin  Wo  )  i's  vompaiiv.  It  so  ii.'ippfned 
thai  all  the  men  wore  -iilin;?  Mown  an''  screened  'rom  lii.s  view,  exc^-piin;:  the  Capt  sin,  artd 
the  Y.snkee,  who  had  no  i  lea  hii:  ihal  he  was  alune,  roile  npanti  very  haii2:htil\'  lemaiki'd, 
'•  yoii'r  iiiv  pri-iiiK-r."  •' VoiiV  ri.:h'  ab.tm  il."  replied  the  Captain,  "only  ymVc  pri't  ihe 
thin'.;  b  iclcw  ird<— yon'r  niitie  !  The  Yanlcc  b?^'an  lo  roll  onl  u;;ly  worls  and  dm  n?Dce(l 
drawing  a  pistol,  w.iereioon  Sircei  Kj  ni>,  with  his  mm  alreaily  levelled  and  si.;ht  taken, 
rai>e  I  him-seir  in  v.iow  of  S.r  Dj  iJle  an  I  o.iHy  observe  I :  '-oej  here  niisiei'.  el'  you  don't 
qiii  yjf  1  )  )lishic-*s  an  I  ^'in  iin  s!i  )iv,  this  here  old  'jjally  nipper  fnzje  o'  n)ine  haint  sol 
no  b.'iter'sense  'an  lo  hjre  a  au;i.:r  h')le  ihu'  ihai  doJrolie.l  Yankee  camp  chist  o'  your'n.'' 
The  ^'aiiuee  caved. 


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merits  and  driven  from  their  fortifications,  made  a  final  Pland  on  Mal- 
vern Hill,  a  position  posc.-sing  great  natural  advantages"  and  washed 
on  its  southern  borders  hy  the  James  river,  now  studded  with  a  galaxy 
of  gunboats.  The  heights  were  commanded  by  a  concentration  of 
their  skilfully  arranged  and  formidal)le  batteries  '*  picturesquely  poised 
in  fan  shape  at  salient  points,"  with  supports,  sa3's  a  Yankee  account, 
"disposed  in  admirable  cover  in  hollows  between  undulations  of  the 
bluff."  It  was  our  duty  to  attract  their  attention  in  front  while  Jack- 
son executed  a  flank  movement  to  the  left. 

We  accordingly  moved  along  the  slope  of  the  hill  obliquing  to  the 
right.  The  chased  lion  at  bay,  now  turns  upon  hi.s  pursuers,  and  tho 
battle  begins  in  dreadful,  terrible  earnest  The  summit  of  the  hill 
sccnis  dressed  in  robes  of  lambent  flame,  while  dense,  dark  volumes 
of  smoke  move  majestically*  along  the  trembling  earth.  The  air  vi- 
brates with  the  roar  of  more  than  two  hundred  cannons,  and  the  solid 
ground  shakes  convulsively  under  pressure  of  the  mighty  shock. 
The  elements  are  careering  in  wild,  passionate,  chaotic  confusion, 
and  noAv  the  gunboats  have  caught  the  grand  refrain  and  loud  and 
deep  the  jarring  echoes  arc  prolonged.  From  clouds  of  smoke  the 
thunder  of  battle  is  followed  by  the  rain  of  death  which  comes  pour- 
ing in  heavy  showers  upon  the  thinned  but  still  advancing  ranks  of 
Confederate  soldiery.  Onward  in  that  grand  array,  with  firm  and 
steady  steps  and  resolutions  that  quail  not  at  the  vengeance  of  fate 
itself,  move  the  brave  soldiers  of  the  1  Ith  Georgia.  And  now  they 
have  advanced  to  within  four  hundred  yards  of  the  enemies  lines  and 
volleys  from  the  small  arms  come  hissing  among  them  while  their  lo- 
cality is  such  that  to  return  the  fire  will  inevitably  prove  disastrous 
to  another  of  our  regiments  by  which  they  arc  partially  masked. 
The  order  to  halt  is  given,  and  while  our  men  stand  unmoved  by  the 
appalling  terrors  which  surround  them,  we  too,  indulgent  reader,  will 
pause  and  hastily  survey  the  lines*  We  first  come  to  Capt.  Mitchel's 
company,  torn  and  mangled  by  the  deadly  missiles,  it  yet  stands  firm 
as  though  planted  in  the  soil.  We  next  reach  the  company  of  Capt. 
Ilydc,  though  surrounded  by  discouragements,  his  men  maintain  their 
position  with  commendable  and  unyielding  fidelity.  And  here  stands 
Capt.  Hunt's  command,  bold,  defiant,  like  a  tiger  crouched  and  ready 
at  a  signal  given  to  spring  furiously  upon  its  victim.  We  turn  from 
at  to  view  the  maiily  files  of  Capt.  Thatcher  as  they  fearlessly  breast 
the  storm  tliat  rages  furiously  around  them.  And  now  we  have 
.reached  Capt.  Nunnely's  company,  as  it  stands  erect  and  proud  in  tho 
•consciousness  of  unfaltering  courage.  Garnett  writhes  in  mortal 
agony,  and  the  cold,  pale  form  of  Griffin  lies  motionless  before  us. 
A  last  request  has  trembled  on  his  dying  lips  ere  they  closed  forever. 
■"Tell  my  mother  they  have  killed  mt,  but  I  fell  at  my  post,  and  I'm 
not  afraid  to  die."  Sleep  on  brave  comrade,  your  mother  knows  it, 
-and  through  the  mist  that  dims  that  mother's  eye  is  seen  the  pride 
that  swells  her  bosom  for  the  noble  conduct  of  her  noble  boy. 

That  man  who  stands  there  flaunting  vour  country's  flag  so  taunt- 
jngly  amid  the  heaving  billows  of  destruction,  is  Billy  Martin. 
Billy  seems  thoroughly  convinced  that  this  hurricane  of  lead  arid  iron 


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is  a  species  of  childisb  nonsense  he  has  grown  mucli  too  large  to  no- 
tice. We  next  como  to  that  part  of  the  line  commanded  hj  the  g'\- 
lant  and  lamented  Jackson.  It  rests  upon  the  colors,  :ind  bo  assured 
■wherever  they  lead  it  will  follow  to  the  "bitter  end."  Captain 
Dobbs'  company  occupies  the  succeeding  pos'ition  in  the  programme. 
They  bear  themselves  like  men,  like  Spartan  heroes.  Tlieir  valiant 
Carter  goes  down  to  rise  no  more,  still  clasping  his  trusty  firelock  in 
the  icy  grasp  of  death.  Sergeant  Garrett,  too,  falls  in  the  midst  of 
an  exhibition  of  manl3^  courage  and  energy.  Next  we  view  the 
column  of  Capt  Fudge's  men.  They  exhibit  the  personntion  of 
slumbering  strength,  roused  to  action,  "  noble  god-like  action."  And 
now  we  come  to  Capt.  Wood's  company.  Here  Lawrence,  whi  o  utter- 
ing vt'ords  of  encourngemeut  and  expressions  of  hope,  passes  suddenly 
into  the  eternal  Avorld;  but  his  place  in  the  ranks  is  filled  and  tha 
men  who  live  on  are  resolved  to  follow  the  fortunes  of  the  regiment 
as  if  led  by  the  star  of  destiny.  The  company  of  Capt.  Stokes,  oc- 
cupies the  end  of  the  line.  The  survey  satisfies  us  that  Lee  county 
never  possessed  materials  for  a  better,  braver  companj'  than  that  before 
us.*  Later  in  the  action  Adjtitajit  Green  receives  a  severe  Avound 
while  actively  engaged  in  rallying  and  encouraging  the  mem.  An- 
derson, the  Colonel  of  our  regiment,  who  has  long  commanded  tho 
brigade,  stands  near  us  in  this  trying  hour.  His  form  erect  and  lips 
compressed. 

"A  fiamc  (if  atliiiTiant,  a  soul  ol  fire," 

he  surveys  the  imposing  scene  with  the  nir  of  one  blessed  with  a  spirit 
born  to  rule  the  jarring  ar.d  tumultuous  elements  around  him.  No 
difficulties  can  shake  the  force  and  power  cf  his  resolution — no  dan- 
gers appal  his  stout,  strong  heart.  He  is  ^it  home  amid  such  scenes 
as  this.  Ho  has  shared  the  soldier's  fate  an  ong  the  gelid  snows  of 
Kansas,  and  mingled  in  tho  din  of  battle,  fierce  and  harsh,  l*ke  this 
upon  the  burning  plains  of  the  Atsics  in  years  agono.  I  cannot  pause 
to  pursue  this  enumeration  further.  The  point  we  now  occupied  (as 
before  shown)  was  such  as  to  render  it  impossible  that  any  gojd  re- 
sults should  follow  from  its  longer  retention ;  we  were,  therefore,  or- 
dered to  fall  back.  Later  in  the  action  our  regiment  w^as  conducted 
back  to  a  position  near  the  one  it"  had  vacated,  and  remained 
there  (until  the  hill  was  evacuated)  under  a  heavy  and  destructive 
fire. 

On  the  fourth,  we  followed  the  spoor  of  the  enemy,  and  were  posted 
on  picket  near  Charles  City.  But  the  anaconda  had  now  quit  its  quilc, 
loosened  its  grip,  and  its  long  lacerated  tail  was  writhing  in  such  con- 
tortions as  to  denote  the  presence  of  djing  agonies.  The  sarpent 
seemed  changing  Jiits  base  for  the  hilt  time. 

The  flower  of  the  Federal  army  had  faded  into  the  '"  sere  and  yel- 

•  Thinking  a  failhful  notice  of  the  regiment  by  companies  as  civen  here,  not  only  due  to 
those  concerneii  hm  cnlcnlalecl  to  alToril  pleasure  to  readers  at  home,  I  ha'.e  inserted  it  at 
tlie  rislc  of  inflietin*^  a  ledimis  detail.  I  wisli  I  could  give  to  the  numeronscoinpany  officer* 
the  tributes  which  their  noble  ;;allaniry  deserves.  They  live  in  my  iiean  and  should  livciu 
my  record  if  space  were  ;i Horded. 


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low  leaf."  McClellau  hiving  collected  the  s^attcreJ  remnants  of  his 
army  around  him, 

'•Willi  ^rave 
Aspect  he  rose,  and  in  liis  rising  seemed 
A  i)illar.«)l  >t.Mt;  ilei p  on  his  Iront  engraven, 
Dclib'.Tiiliim  s.it  ami  public  care; 
Ami  piioiely  coui.sel  in  his  lace  yei  shone 
M..jj.-.iic,  Uioii^h  in  ruin. 

11  is  look 
Drew  aii'.li'jnce  and  atienlion  still  as  niiihl  " 

lie  toll  tlicin  they  "had  succeeded  in  chtmging  their  bnse  by  a 
flank  movemcnr.  always  regarded  a3  the  m  )st  hazardous  of  military 
operations/'  Th  y  knew  such  flank  movements  were  not  "the  most 
hazardous  of  militiry  operations."  Their  own  trusty  legs,  (always 
the  best  judges  of  "hazardous  operations,")  would  have  guided  them 
through  just  such  a  "flank  movement,"  ha. I  CJen.  McCle.llan  vamosed 
the  lanche.  They  were  well  aware  that  it  would  have  been  a  inuch 
more  "hazardous  military  operation"  to  have  not  "executed"  v^^uc'i  a 
"  flank  inoveuient."  Gen.  McUlellan  had  undoubte<lIy  conducted  his 
retreat  with  masterly  skill  and  generalship;  l)ut  the  retreat  would 
have  conlucted  itself  with  much  more  celerity,  greater  economy  of 
human  life,  and  ver}'  nearly  as  little  loss  of  cannms.  munitions  and* 
supplies  In  his  address  he  procea<led  to  assure  his  dispiiitel  troops 
that  "this  army  shall  enter  the  capital  of  th  ;  so  called  Confederacy," 
while  they  confidently  believed  he  would  as  soon  have  expected  to  dip 
the  ocean  dry  with  a  knitting  needle  as  lead  t,he;n  to  the  accomplish- 
ment of  ihat  ohject.  There,  huddled  together,  like  cattle  in  a  storm, 
lay  tlie  yet  livitig  skeleton  of  tlie  once  grand  army.  The  armv  that 
of  late  went  forth  so  defiantly,  with  child-like  weakness  now  clinging 
for  protection;  ta  the  parental  apron  strings  ot  its  gunl>oats — its 
gloiy  departed;  the  scept;-e  of  power  wrested  from  its  gripe — p.anting, 
exhausted,  bleeding,  disjouraged  and  demoralized,  it  stretches  out 
upcn  the  beach,  "a  noble  wi-e;k  in  ruinous  perfection." 

On  the  evening  of  the  7t!i  our  starved  and  wornout  regiment 
retraced  its  steps,  and  having  travelled  all  night  camped  the  next 
day  three  miles  below  Richmonil  on  the  Darbytown  road. 

Now  follows  a  hiatus  in  our  history — a  piuse  in  the  storm — i  sea- 
son of  repose,  disturbed  only  by  occasional  picket  calls  and  the  usaal 
duries-bf  the  camp. 

On  the  23J  our  brigade  and  that  of  Gen.  Toombs  moved  to  New 
Market  htnght.-?,  and  began  to  occupy  M  dvern  ILll  as  a  post,  [(lacing 
one  regiment  on  picket  at  a  ti  ne.  From  this  point  a  force  of  Yan- 
kees drove  in  the  picket-  on  the  jth  of  xlugust,  and  took  pos-<ession 
of  the  hill.  During  the  forenoon  of  the  5th  our  regiment  mi>ved  out 
to  meet  them  and  formed  at  the  base  of  the  hill  near  the  Frazier  farm. 
Next  day  their  cavalry  crame  witmn  two  hundred  yards  of  our  skir- 
mi>h«rs,  but  being  fireil  on  they  retire-d.  A  plan  was  speedily  set  on 
foot  for  the  demolition  or  capture  of  their  entire  force.  But  as  the 
only  object  they  designed  to  accomplish  was  a  parting  feint,  the  morn- 
ing of  the  7th  disclosed  the  pleasing  fact  that  they  had 
'■  Gone,  like  Ajul,  never  to  return." 


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The  14th  at  length  arriv^eil,  ami  oar  jubilee  was  at  an  end.  Taking 
the  train,  we  arrived  at  Gordonsville  in  the  afternoon  of  the  same 
day.  and  on  the  17th,  our  wagons  having  reached  us,  and  everything 
b  ing  in  or<ler,  we  set  out  in  the  direction  of  Maniissns.  Our  loute 
lead  two  miles  cast  of  Orange,  whence  we  took  down  the  Fredericks- 
burg road  to  the  distance  of  twoWe  miles,  and  then  bore  off  to  the 
left.  With  heavy  inarches  our  regiment  reached  Raccoon  ford  o.n 
R;ipid;in  river  the  second  day.  The  enemy  wii*  understood  as  occu- 
pying the  oppo>ite  sliore.  On  the  night  of  the  1 9th  Ave  crossed  the 
river  alone.  Our  regiment  was  to  have  had  a  support,  hut  owing  to -a 
misconception  of  the  order  it  did  not  make  its  appearance.  As  we 
halted  upon  che  banks  of  the  rivei-,  the  night  wind  caused  our  teeth  to 
chatter;  but  the  cold  water,  the  work  of  wading,  and  a  lesson  in  pa- 
tient endurance  was  yet  before  us.  After  crossing,  we  marched  about 
half  a  mile,  when  Lieutenant  Colonel  LuiTman  stationed  six  coir  panics 
in  reserve,  and  conducte  I  the  remuining  four  to  picket  posts,  and  in- 
structed them  to  observe  profound  silence,  keep  well  awake,  watch  ddi- 
gentl3',  and  in  case  of  an  attack  to  fall  back  to  some  houses  near  the 
Lrd;  to  risk  death  or  capture,  but  in  no  event  hazard  recrossing  the 
river  in  the  dark  Thus  instructcfl,  we  mannged  with  watching, 
Aivering  and  nodding  to  drag  through  the  long,  lonesome  hours  of  the 
night.  Ne.xt  morning  the  array  crossed,  and  our  regiment  marching 
to  the  fi'ont  with  skirmislers  tlirown  out,  were  soon  upon  the  banks 
of  the  Rippaliannock,  moving  down  the  river  During  the  day  we- 
turned  aside  and  took  the  road  leading  to  Kelley's  ford,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  supporting  a  cavaLy  force  stationed  in  that  direction,  but  our 
services  not  being  necessary,  we  were  ordered  back  and  rejoined  the 
brigade  at  night  In  the  evening  of  the  succeeding  day,  (21st,)  we 
changed  direction,  and  marching  up  the  river  passed  through  Brandy 
and  bivouacked  at  Rappahannock  station,  in  close  proximity  to  Gene- 
ral Pope's  army,  on  the  22nil.  'ihe  next  njorning  dawned  clear  and 
sultry.  The  music  of  cannon  soon  "  rose  with  its  voluptuous  savcII,"' 
80  audibly  that 

"  RVn  n  child   mi:rhl  nndcrstrnd 
The  De'il  hail  business  on  his  liaml." 

Our  brigade  Ava=?  drawn  up  so  that  the  right  of  the  Eleventh  regi- 
ment rested  on  the  railroad,  the  line  running  east  and  west,  and  occu- 
pying a  position  on  the  western  side  of  the  railroad.  Colonel  Ander- 
son rode  along  the  front  and  made  some  remarks.  I  did  not  distinctly 
understand  about  "  ch  irging  a  battery,"  when,  with  fixed  bayonets, 
we  moved  rapidly  forward  in  line  of  battle  towards  the  Rappahannock. 
After  clearing  an  intermediate  skirt  of  woods,  three  batteries  from 
the  neighboring  hills,  in  full,  unobstructed  view,  opened  upon  us  a 
brisk,  well  directed  and  galling  fire.  [To  avoid  repetition  hereafter,  I 
will  here  state  that  our  brigade  j)Osition.  in  thia  and  all  future  instances, 
up  to  date,  was  the  extreme  right  of  General  Longstreet's  c  irps.] 

For  a  good  half  mile  we  moved  forward,  the  enemy  meanwhile  using 
all  tlie  arguments  cannon  cartrivlges  could  wield  to  convince  us  that 
the  undertaking  we  had  embarked  in  was  fruitless  and  perilous.      AVe 


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at  If-ngtii  roachod  a  fence*  ditch  in  which  we  paused  a  moraent  to  rest 
and  breathe.  The  enemy's  efforts  became  more  animated,  their  ener- 
gies redoubled,  in  the  attempt  to  prevent  us  from  resuming  the  ad- 
vance, lint  all  in  vain.  Lieutenant  Colonel  Luffman  gave  the  order, 
and  our  regiment  leaped  the  fence  and  again  buffeted  tho  storm.  As 
we  passed  along  the  line  of  battle  t6  the  left  of  our  brigade,  we  soon 
reached  ihc  foot  of  the  hill  on  which  the  nearest  battery  was  stationed, 
and  a  regiment  advanced  to  charge  it.  I-ut  the  battery  limbered  np 
and  soon  crossed  the  river,  fired  the  bridge,  and  opened  upon  us  fiora 
the  opposite  side.  This  circumstance  revealed  a  fact  which  we  had 
not  hitherto  suspected,  to-wit :  that  the  Knppahannock,  at  the  base  of 
the  slope  along  which  we  were  moving,  had  lain  all  the  while  between 
us  and  the  two  remaining  batteries,  and  now  protectctl  all  the  encjny's 
artillery.  So,  after  marching  full  three  fjuarters  of  a  mile,  and  lo.-ing 
a  number  of  our  brave  and  faithful  comrades,  the  Yankee  position 
was  ascertained  to  be  wholly  unapproachable.  But  our  mission  doubt 
less  accomplished  the  object  for  which  it  was  designed.  We  attracted 
the  enemy's  attention  while  Jackson  ascended  the  river  and  effected  a 
crossing  above.  "VVe  were  now  ordered  to  lie  down,  and  there,  exposed 
to  an  incessant  fire,  under  the  noon  of  a  "  .sultry  summer  sun,"  with- 
out the  shade  of  a  leaf  or  bush,  our  regiment  lay  on  the  parched  eartlT 
for  seven  long  hours.  Many  fainted  from  the  effects  of  heat  and  were 
borne  off  the  field.  About  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  aright  flank 
movement  was  executed  which  soon  gave  us  shade  and  t^heltcr  in  the 
neighboring  woods  > 

Tiic  great  object  of  the  enemy  at  this  period  was  to  prevent  our 
army  from  crossing  the  river.  Fortunttely  for  us  we  had  General 
Lee,  not  Burnside,  to  direct  our  movements  in  effecting  the  transit. 
The  plans  arritnged  and  the  process  by  wliich  that  object  was  accom- 
plished belong  to  the  historian  of  the  war,  and  with  him  I  leave  them. 
My  business  is  to  travtd  along  with  the  regiment,  and  record,  not  em- 
bryo plans,  purposes  and  processes  of  the  army,  but  acts  and  facts, 
pertaining  to  the  eleventh  Georgia,  as  they  are  moulded  into  stvibborn 
practical  realities.  And  some  of  these,  even,  I  am  compelled  to  for- 
bear inserting  under  penalty  of  swelling  my  manuscript  beyond  its 
prescribed  dimensions,  and  in'lictiiig  upon  the  reader  a  monotonous  and 
unreadable  record.  A  detail  of  the  hardships,  privations  and  suffer- 
ing wliich  characterized  the  march  that  was  now  progressing,,  would 
be  difficult  of  accomplishment,  and  require  more  space  than  is  allotted 
to  an  ordinary  volume.  We  had  to  subsist  a  portion  of  the  time  on 
green  corn  roasted  b  ;foro  the  lire,  and  very  ofren  even  that  was  in- 
convenient and  scarce.  Clouds  had  for  the  most  part  deserted  the 
elements.  The  sun  shone  Avith  heat  that  was  intolerably  oppressive, 
and  waves  of  floating  dust  undulated  with  the  movements  of  that  large 
army,  dispensing  their  suffocating  effects  with  unstinted  prodigality. 

Sick  and  exhausted  bodies,  bare  and  bleeding  feet,  trampling  over 

111  O'lO 

the  sharp  rocks  of  macadamized  roads,  (ah  !  those  were  the  roads  that 

♦Fences  in  this  country  are  made  generally  upon  embanked  ground,  whicliliavc  a  cor. 
responding  |iarallel  ditch. 


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tried  the  sohs  of  men,)  the  s-j.^rcity  and  cliaracter  of  the  water  and 
rations  ^ve  obtained,  and  in  sho't  the  prevalent  and  general  destitution 
of  almost-  every  necessity  of  life,  are  matters  -which  I  leave  as  the 
subject  of  fireside  chat  when  we  again  share  the  blessings  of  home. 

Bearing  up  th )  Rappahannock  our  regiment  passed  through  J.eifer- 
8on,  by  the  neighborhood  of  Warrcuton  bridge,  and  crossed  the  river 
opposite  New  Boston,  through  which  place  Ave  marched,  and  camped 
several  miles  beyond  near  midnight  of  the  26th.  The  next  day  wo 
passed  through  Salem  and  reached  White  Plains  late  in  the  evening. 
Just  before  our  arrival  at  the  former  place  a  force  of  Yankee  cavalry 
had  been  there,  captured  a  ftMv  stragglers,  and  threatened  to  check 
our  advance.  But  we  pushed  forward  to  meet  them  and  they 
*' changed  their  base,"  and  dug  dirt^for  parts  unguessed  at.  From 
White  Plains  we^pursued  the  Haymarket  road  without  interruption 
until  we  reached  Thoroughfirc  Gap,  a  deep  railroad  cut  in  the  I'uU- 
run  mountain,  between  Salem  and  Manassas.  While  we  moved  alonjj 
this  narrow  pathway,  a  shell  came  suddenly  hurtling  over  us  from  the 
front,  and  Colonel  Luffman  gave  the  order  to  lie  down.  With  the 
enemy  ahead  of  us,  and  no  alternative  but  to'  move  in  column,  subject 
to  an  enfilading  fire  that  mig'at  rake  us  en  masss,  orders  were  given 
and  the  rcgirat-ut  arose,  marched  on,  and  havinix  cleared  the  gap  in 
safety,  filed  to  the  left.  Niglit  had  now  come  on,  and  through  dark- 
ness such  as  reigned  over  Erebus  in  the  pulmiest  dajs  of  that  sunle.^s 
clime,  we  marched  a  mile  in  line  among  bushes,  brush  and  briers,  in 
pursuit  of  the  retreating  enemy.  Finding  they  were  gone,  about 
midnight  we  fell  back  to  a  convenient  position  and  slept.  Our  regiment 
marched  the  next  day  through  Ilaymarket  and  Gainsville,  and  halted 
in  tlie  evening  on  the  margin  of  the  old  ^lanassas  battle  groan>l. 
The  opposing  armies  were  now  confronting  each  other  in  adu  belli,  and 
we  had  reached  the  scene  of  action.  The  regiment  was  in  a  few 
minutes  aligned  and  conducted  at  a  double  quick  in  direction  of  the 
turnpike  for  about  two  miles,  most  of  the  way  under  spirited  shelling, 
to  aid  General  Featherston's  brigade  in  holding  a  captured^attery, 
but  assistance  being  unnecessary,  we  at  length  returned  and  resumed 
our  former  position.  The  day  passed  off,  and  the  morning  sun  ushered 
in  the  Silth  of  August — a  sun  that  shone  on  carnage  and  glory ;  a 
day  destined  to  be  forever  memorable  in  the  auaals  of  time ;  a  sun 
whose  dial  marked  the  course  of  events  which  must  forever  rank 
among  the  most  important  and  illustrious  of  history ;  a  day  whoso 
voice  will  be  audible  to  remote  posterity  as  it  discourses  eloqueutly  of 
patriotism  and  valor,  and  whose  deeds,  like  mountain  summits,  will  but 
brighten  over  objects  lost  to  view  amid  the  mists  of  the  intervening 
distance.     That  day,  the  bright  tiara  of  the  year. 


CHAPTER    IV. 

About  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  the  fighting  commenced.     Our 
regiment  was  kept  upon  the  qui  vice  in  momentary  expectation  of  bo- 


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ing  Kumtnoncd  to  join  our  comrades  on  tlie  field.  Our  expectations 
were  soon  to  be  realized;  acting  Major  General  Jones  came  gallopirtg 
up  and  announced  that  "another  Manassas  victory  has  been  gained, 
the  enemy  are  in  full  retreat  and  I  want  ever3'body  to  join  in  tho 
pursuit,"  The  work  of  falling  in  was  executed  with  admirable  dex- 
terity, and  the  regiment  double-quicked  in  the  direction  indicated 
At  length  the  last  obstruction  is  passed  and  we  are  doomed  to  spend 
the  remnant  of  the  day  amid  the  carnival  of  death.  Schrapncl, 
canister,  grape  and  shell  come  pouring  arnong  us  in  turbid  and  ileso- 
lating  torrents.  Clouds  of  dust  and  the  smoke  of  battle  vie  for 
supremacy  )n  the  stifling  air;  the  track  of  the  regiment  is  marked  by 
brave  men  who  have  '*  frone  down  amid  the  shock  of  battle."     Tlie  solid 

O  f 

earth.yeildsdeep  furrows  to  the  trenchant  missils,  and  the  whole  wel- 
kin world  seems  itdiabited  by  an  army  of  living  scunds.  It  looks  as 
though  the  imprisoned  energies  of  destruction  are  let  loose,  and  we 
go  to  brave  them.'  The  blood  of  martyred  heroes  crying  from  tho 
ground,  a  love  for  our  country  and  a  sense  of  her  wrongs,  live  in  the 
'vengeful  memory  and  impel  us  onward.  Ah  !  'tis  a  scene  of  moral 
grandeur  to  behold  that  line,  torn,  mangled  and  bleeding,  yet  pressing 
onward,  madly,  proudly,  defiantly  onward;  and  now  having  travelled 
more  than  a  mile  in  this  furious  hurricane,  we  have  reached  a  thicket 
of  under-growth,  when  suddenly  from  behind  a  fence,  th?  invisible 
foe  pours  a  deadly  volley  into  our  reeling  ranks.  New  life  seem.s 
imparted  to  the  men  of  the  regiment,  and  though  confronted  by  more 
than  five  times  their  number,  they  begin  their  part  in  the  terrible 
drama,  with  a  zeal  and  earnestness  which  no  terrors  can  clieck  or 
abate.  Colonel  Luffman,  who  has  been  severely  wounded  in  both  legs, 
and  is  able  to  walk  only  with  great  difficulty,  still  stays  with,  and 
encourrgcs  his  men  until  the  relief  arrives,  when  the  command  de- 
volves on  Major  Little.  Our  Acting  Adjutant,  Scott  Bersons,  lies 
pale  and  powerless,  his  life  rapidly  ebbing  away.  No  more  will  that 
matily  form  move  along  the  line  of  the  regiment;  the  film  of  death  is 
8ettlin<*on  the  eye  that  beamed  with  life,  and  light,  and  love.  The 
tongue  that  spoke  words  of  sympathy  for  the  distressed,  encourage- 
ment to  the  disheartened,  and  uttere  I  the  lofty,  generous  sentiments 
of  a  noble  soul,  now  grov/s  mute  forever,  and  tlie  great,  stout  heart 
of  Bersons  will  soo  be  motionless  and  still  in  death.  Captain  Jack- 
eon,  too,  the  embodiment  of  honor,  the  soul  of  chivalry,  Jackson 
rest>*  from  his  labors—  he  has  fallen  a  victim  to  the  leaden  pestilence. 
He  has  addressed  his  men  in  words  of  burning  patriotism.  All  that 
counsel,  admonition,  exhortation,  could  do;  cverj'thirig  that  duty  and 
valor  dictated,  he  has  accomplished  well  and  faithfully,  eVe  his  eyes 
closed  upon  the  scenes  of  time.  There  he  lies,  and  there  beneath  a 
cedar,  near  the  spot  where  he  fell,  must  he  wait  for  the  resurection. 
^heso  armies  will  pass  from  the  plains,  the  crying  echoes  of  battle 
will  be  cradled  to  sleep,  and  stillness  brood  over  this  sacred  spot;  but 
the  martyred  hero  will  not  be  left  alone. 

'•  Then  lumui'l  come,  a  pilprim  ?rav, 
-  To  dress  the  sod  lliai  wraps  his  clay  ; 
.  And  freedom  shall  a  while  repair, 

To  dwell  a  weeping  hermit  there." 


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Fanned  by  Heaven's  purest  breezes,  anrl  nurtured  by  the  tears  of 
angels,  flowers  of  paradise  "svill  bloom  unseen  and  forever  upon  the 
last  resting  place  of  the  patriot  soldier.  The  wo  k  of  death  goes  on; 
and  now  Guerry,  the  brave,  impulsive,  Avarui- hearted  Lieutenant  of 
company  "  I,"  follows  his  comrades  to  the  spirit-world.  Like  them 
he  has  expended  his  talents,  his  influence  and  energies,  in  turning 
the  tide  of  battle  against  the  enemies  of  his  country,  and  like  them 
he  seals-his  devotion  to  liberty  upon  his  country's  altar.  Together 
let  the  noble  trio  • 

"  Sleep  \hc  slppp  that  Icnows  not  breaking, 
Dream  ol'  baiilc  lields  no  more." 

Gower  and  Penland,  though  mortally  wounded,  Avill  live  to  learn 
from  the  shouts  of  victory,  that  the  fruits  of  their  heroism  have  har- 
vested well.  E're  consciousness  settles  in  the  dim  crepuscular  of 
death,  and  the  world  fades  from  their  view,  they  will  know  that  their 
brethren  in  arms  love  their  names,  venerate  their  virtues,  emulate 
their  courage  and  avenge  their  fall.  Long  years  will  pass  away  be- 
fore the  memory  of  I)ersons,  Jackson,  Guerry,  Gower  and  Penland 
will  cease  to  have  a  home  in  the  hearts  of  their  comrades.  Night 
may  brood  gloomily,  and  the  winds  howl  mournfully  over  their 
mouldering  dust,  but  affections,  warm,  tender  and  gushing,  will  clus- 
ter forever  around  them.  * 

With  steady  nerves  and  deliberate  aim,  our  men  keep  up  the  murder- 
ous fire,  pouring  volley  after  volley  in  the  direction  of  the  screened 
and  almost  invisible  foe.  And  now  two  hundred  of  our  men  have 
fallen  and  there  are  not  two  hundred  lefc  to  share  their  fate;  but  not 
a  jot,  not  a  tittle  of  their  calm  courage  is  abated  by  the  impending 
catastrophe.  It  seemed  to  be  the  settled  purpose  of  every  soldier, 
that 

"  Dying,  our  deaths  slia'l  bp  glorious, 
Or  living,  our  lives  be  victorious." 

Tho  enemy's  fire  was  growing  less  frequent  and  spirited.  But  the 
overpowering  numbers  against  us,  the  advantage  of  their  position,  and 
the  heavy  losses  we  had  sustained,  rendered  it  necessary  that  we  should 
retire,  and  allow  a  brigade,  wdiich  came  to  our  relief,  t>  snatch  away 
the  laurels  our  blood-  had  purchased.  Captains  Stokes  and  Woodf 
occupying  the  left  end  of  the  regiment,  were  some  distance  from  our 
commanding  officer,  Avhom  the  order  "  about  face,  forward,  march," 
wr.8  given,  and  not  hearing  the  order,  stood  stubbornly  at  their  posts, 
witnessed  the  debouch  of  the  regiment  and  held   their  two  companies 

♦Itwonli!  have  perhaps  been  more  mnhociical  lo  have  inserted  these  notices  aTicr  eotnplet- 
inpfihe  aceounlot  iheViaille;  imi  I  write  lor  justice,  not  nieihoil.  'i'hey  tell  in  the  midst  of  the 
baitie,  and  iliereihe  iribnte  bplon^snnd  is  rendered.  1  regret,  more  th'-n  the  readercan  im- 
agine, my  infibility  here  to  mention  the  brave  and  fallen  among  ihe  privates  and  non-com- 
missioned ofliceis.  1  am,  myself,  a  private  and  desire- to  have  the  lull  measure  of  justice 
meeiedtomv  peers,  but  in  any  engagemeni  so  fatal,  the  reader  will  see  the  impossibility 
I  could  not  mention  some  to  the  e.Kclu^ion  of  others  equally  meritorious. 

tCapt.  Wood  mistaking' ihc  retreat  for  a  panic,  spoke  excitedly,  "In  the  name  of  God,  men, 
whataro  voii  doing;  iiavc  you  forgot  ihalyou  a'-e  Georgians,and  belong  in  the  front  of  Iht 
battle.!" 


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in  the  face  of  a  fire  tli:\t  was  still  galling  and  er  orgetic.  But  being 
apprised  or'  their  mistak?,  they  soon  movel  to  and  dressed  upon  tli« 
regiin -nt  which  had  fallen  ba:k  about  fifty  yards  in  fine  style  ;  the  men 
turning  to  shoot  as  they  went.  Reader,  if  you  have  never  been  in 
battle  you  can  form  no  idea  how  it  eftects  the  nerves  to  retreat  in  the 
heat  of  an  engagement.  You  have,  no  douljt,  often  wondere«l  how  men 
who  saw  so  much  that  was  beautiful,  lovely  and  endearing  in  this  life, 
could  oiTer  so  Cf-hnly  and  patiently  to  resign  it.  There  is  a  wild, 
exhiliratiiig  deliglit  that  uiiuirles  with  the  stern  terrprs  of  the  battle- 
field The  determination  to  conquer,  the  hope  of  success,  the  spirit  of 
burning  v.^ngeance,  bursting  forth  as  from  the  crater  of  a  volcano, 
carry  a  momentum  upon  -vuich  the  instinct  of  self-preservation  i* 
borne  along  like  straws  upon  a  current  But  a  retreat  thus  ordered 
without  any  explanation  of  iLs  design,  possess  all  the  horrors  and  noua 
of  the  charuis  which  belong  to  the  field  of  battle.  Aware  of  these 
facts,  Jiieut.  Kimbrough,  with  great  coolness  and  presence  of  mind  and 
without  wailing  for  instructions  from  any  quarter,  ran  up  the  lines 
and  ordered  the  colors  to  halt.  But  his  voice  was  lost  in  the  roar  of 
battle,  and  again  approaching  nearer  to  the  standard  bearer  he  gave 
the  command  more  loudly  and  energetically  than  before  to  "halt  with 
those  colors,"  Cross,  who  had  borne  the  tiag  so  gallantly  through  tho 
fight,  and  was  already  in  tlie  rear  of  ihe  line,  needed  no  second  ad- 
monition. The  regiment  halted  and  faced  about  within  (as  befor* 
Bsated,)  fifty  yards  of  tlie  position  they  had  just  yielded,  while  a  Pal- 
metto brigade,  Hanking  the  covert  by  which  they  were  concealed,  march- 
ed in  upon  the  now  retreating  enemy.  After  a  few  moments  rest,  (all 
the  while  under  fire  from  the  Yankees  batteries,)  we  moved  back,  passed 
the  former  hiding  place  and  filed  to  the  left.  Here,  too,  the  infantry 
had  left  their  position,  and  a  battery,  unapproachable  through  the  in- 
tervening thicket,  opened  upon  us  a  most  galling  and  destructive  fire. 
To  have  remained  thus  situated  would,  of  course,  h;ive  been  extreme 
folly.  Col.  Anderson,  who  was  in  f;ont  of  us,  spoke  out  in  a  clear, 
voice,  "  Men,  lam  going  to  give  an  order  which  1  want  executed  with 
as  much  composure  as  if  you  were  on  battalion  drill;  about  face, 
forward  march,"  anil  through  woods,  whe'jye  scarce  a  tree  or  bush 
failed  to  bear  marks  of  the  h:ivoc  going  on,  the  regiiuent  preserved  its 
alignment.  Our  part  in  the  battle  was  now  performed,  for  soon  the 
tumult  and  commotion  of  the  conflict  gave  place  to  loud,  stentorian 
shouts  of  victory  !  victor^' !  victory  !  and  the  lield  was  ours. 

The  enemy  had  fought  li]ce  Furies,  but  a  just  God  presided  over  the 
sanguinary  scene,  and  their  cour.ige  availed  not  to  avert  his  righteous 
purpose  or  stay  the  current  that  bore  down  upon   them. 

I  have  noticed  the  gall-.mt  bearing  of  those  among  the  commissioned 
oflJcers  who  fell  on  that  eventful  day.  I  cannot,  will  not,  pass  over  in 
silence  t  e  suvivors.     Anderson,*  Luffman  and  Little,  Mitchell,  John- 

*Who,  though cominiinler  of  ihehriijade,  went  wiili  our  regiment.  The  officers  whose 
niim.'si  are noL  here  inseiied  were  some  of  ihem  ah.seiit  IVoiu  sickness  and  some  appoint- 
ed on  necfssary  and  important  dctMiis  The  writer  knows  that,  had  Ihey  been  nreseni, 
nearly  every  one  of  them  would  have  borne  his  pari  in  the  (hinders  and  honors  ol'tiie  day. 
Ulher  liiiltle-lields  have  proven  the  iiiitholihis  statement.  'I'his  bailie  beiny:  the  i<rcal 
epoci;  in  our  re^rnieiital  liivioiy,  \u  actors  ncquiie  a  noUnid}',  which sp;;ee  lorbidb  me  a.s- 
signing  to  ihe  dramatis ycisancc  ul  olher  liclds. 
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Eton,  Gndger,  Freeman,  BleJsoe,  Brannon,  Nunnelj^,  Hurt,  Burnett, 
Dobbs,  Fudge,  Biskins,  Belvin,  Wood,  Russell,  McVVilliams, 
Stokes,  Lipscy  and  Kinibrough,  all  p'lr  nohlle,  wrenched  laurels  from 
the  clutches  of  death.  It  woul  I  be  unjust  to  dr.nv  any,  the  slightest, 
distinction  between  ihe  behaviour  of  ench  and  all  of  them  daring  the 
conliict.  Enry  one  was  at  his  post,  exhibiting  a  reckless  disregard  for 
danger,  moving  wherever  his  presence  became  necessary,  displaying 
rem  irkable  cooliiess  and  expending  almost  superhuman  exertions. 
AVitli  s'lch  officers  and  such  regiments,  upon  what  liook  can  the  des- 
ponding among  our  countrymen  hang  a  doubt  of  the  ultimate  triuiupli 
of  Southern  arms. 


The  command  of  the  regiment,  as  before  stated,  devolved  on  Mijor 
Little,  after  Lieut.  Col.  liuffman  left  the  field,  and  he  has  retained  it 
ever  since.  On  the  promotion  of  Col.  Anderson  he  was  elected  Colo- 
nel of  the  Regiment.  *  His  bold,  adventurous  spirit,  proficiency  i'.i 
tactics,  energy  of  character  and  ameni'y  of  temper,  rendered  the  selec- 
tion peculiarly  suitable. 

The  :}Ist  of  August  and  1st  of  September  were  devoted  to  pursuing 
the  enemy  up  the  Fairfax  road.  In  the  evening  of  the  l^st  mentioned 
day  the  regiment  bivoucked  on  the  battle  field  of  Young's  Mill, 
from  which  point,  at  night,  they  moved  forward  treading,  as  it  wn-e, 
upon  the  heels  of  the  enemy,  and  receiving,  in  return,  the  contents 
of  a  battery  rather  copiously  administered.  But  our  line  advancing 
as  if  no  obstacle  were  before  it,  when  we  neared  them  they  ceased 
firing,  and  disappeared  in  the  darkness.  We  accordingly  stationed 
Buitabie  pickets,  and  having  sought  a  convenient  position,  spent  the 
remainder  of  the  night,  already  far  advanced  wi'h 
"Tiroil  nature's  sweet  restorer,  b;iliny  sloop." 

The  succeeding  day  was  appropriated  to  the  work  of  drawing  and 
cooking  jations,  and  bringing  up  the  unfinished  business  of  our  much 
abused  and  long  neglected  a[)petites.  On  the  morning  of  the  tliird, 
bright  and  soon  we  were  again  on  the  pad  in  search  of  Yankees,  but 
they  had  eluded  pur.><uit,  and  having  marched  three  miles  up  the  Alex- 
andria road  we  returned,  and  took  the  Leesburg  turnpike  for  Maryland. 
After  going  by  Drainsvillc  and  through^Leesburg,t  we  wadeclthe  Poto- 
mac ten  miles  above  the  latter  place,  and  entered  Maryland  on  the 
sixth.  From  thence  we  wound  through  Buckeytown,  across  the 
Moiiooacy  river,  and  on  towards  Federick,/near  which  place  we  struck 
camps  lor  two  days,  in  order  to  cook,  rest  and  recruit.  From  Fred- 
erick, our  regiment  continued  its  march  through  Middletown,   across 

*C;iptain  .McDnniel  w.t^  elected  M.ijor  vice  Mnjor  Liitle.  His  election  was  a  c 'inpU- 
mcni  WDfihilv  rtceivcd  ami  approprinie'y  bestowtd.  A  suitable  reward  lor  cxhibiiinns  of 
the  tn  ist  ilisiin^uishin;^  valorun  several  oceasioiis, 

tTlie  harefooied  men  (and  iheirnamc  wa.s  Legion,)  who  would  consentio  remain  behind, 
weic  ie.'i  at  Lee.-bnrg.     Tl>e  iiiihlic  has  been  noiificJ  by  othersof  the  stifTerings  endured  by 
ourarniy  in  this  respect,     [simply  ob-^crvc  we  boie  our  share  in  Ihe  evil,  hut  thcnrmber  of 
our  men  wh.;  availed  themselves  of  jls  exemptions  were  verv  few. 
4 


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the  mountains,  tbroiigli  Boonsborough  and  Functown,  and  reached 
Hajrerstown  on  the  tenth.  We  remained  at  Haf»erstown  until  the 
fourteenth,  when  McClellan's  advance  having  engaged  the  rear  of  our 
forces  at  Boonsborough,  the  army  begaft  to  move  back  and  mass  along 
the  waters  of  the  Antietam.  In  view  of  the  '*  impending  crisis  "  our 
regiment  (in  company  with  one  of  cavalry,)  was  detailed  to  guard  the 
transportation  of  supplies  collected  in  ^laryland,  and  other  commis- 
sariat and  quartermaster's  stores  belonging  to  our  army  beyond  the 
Potomac.  We  accordingly  moved  back  to  Functown,  in  order  to  meet 
a  portion  of  the  returning  wagons,  and  take  the  Williamsport  road 
from  that  jilace.  The  train  extended  for  several  miles,  and  our  small 
force  was  of  necessity  wholly  inadequate  to  cover  the  line  of  its 
movements.  But  Major  Little  made  the  best  possible  disposition  of 
his  men.  He  divided  the  regiment,  placing  Captain  Mitchel  in  com- 
mand of  the  right  wing  towards  the  front,  and  moving  himself  wirh 
the  left,  in  rear  of  the  wagons.  Before  day  next  morning  the  right 
wing  was  in  motion.  About  the  time  of  their  starting,  two  biigades 
(so  reported)  of  fugitive  Yankee  cavalry  from  Harper's  Ferry  crossed 
the  track  of  the  train  at  the  junction  of  tbe  Functown  and  ILigers- 
town  roads,  and  began  to  conduct  the  wagons  in  the  direction  of  the 
former  place.  At  first  the  wagoners  thought  they  were  Confederate 
•soldiers  and  olisyed  instructions  with  their  usual  cheerfulness.  But 
as  daylight  was  dawning  the  secret  soon  leaked  out,  and  a  messenger 
was  hurried  off  to  communicate  the  intelligence  to  Captain  Mitchell. 
Knowing  it  was  impossible,  with  his  handful  of  men,  to  contend 
against  such  a  force,  the  Captain  (after  consultation  with  his  otiicers.) 
wisely  resolved  to  fall  back  and  connect  with  the  left  wing.  But  the 
Federals  meditated  nothing  more  than  a  passing  notice,  they  were  too 
thoroughly  panic  stricken  to  tarry,  and  he  had  not,  consequently, 
retreated  a  great  way  before  information  came  that  the  road  was  ai;aia 
clear,  and  he  resumed  his  march,  and  reached  Williamsport  without 
further  interruption.  We  had  lost  a  number  of  wagons,  and  some 
valuable  stores  by  this  raid.  But  it  was  a  misfortune  which  human 
courage,  foresight  and  vigilance  could  not  have  averted.  During  tho 
forenoon.  Major  Little,  who  was  constantly  expecting  an  attack  from 
the  left  wing,  adopted  the  correct  policy  of  halting  every  armed  strag- 
gler who  passed  along  and  putting  him  in  ranks.  By  this  process  (as 
straggling  was  then  quite  a  fashionable  amusement  and  the  "  company 
Q's"  "Green  Apple  Rifles"  !»nd  "  Roasting  Ear  Rangers"  weje 
growing  alarming  multudinous,)  his  command  soon  swelled  into  res- 
•pectable  dimensions. 

At  Williamsport  the  two  wings  je-united,  and  having  waded  the 
Potomac,  moved  down  the  AVinchester  turnpike,  and  camped  late  in 
tlie  night  at  Hayneville,  five  miles  from  Martinsburg.  The  next 
morning,  (16th,)  the  regiment  w^as  again  divided.  Major  Little  com-  ■ 
manding  the  right  wing,  and  advancing  to  the  front,  and  Captain 
Stokes  the  left,  and  covering  the  rear  of  the  wagons.  As  the  separa- 
tion in  this  instance  was  more  protracted,  and  cmbrar3ed  events  of 
greater  importance  than  before,  I  will  commence  with  the  right  wing, 
And  go  with  each  separately  until  the  period  of  their  re-union. 


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Having  gone  through  Martinsburg  and  Shepherdstown,  thej  slept 
at  uight  on  the  banks  of  the  Potomac,  and  early  the  next  morning 
crossed  over  into  Maryland,  and  halted  at  Shaipsburg  to  incjuire  where 
the  division  was  stationed.  The  battle  Tvas  already  progressing. 
Orders  soon  came  for  ]Major  Little  to  join  General  Toombs'  brigade, 
which  having  been  accomplished,  we  repaired  to  a  suitable  position, 
waited  a  reasonable  tiii.e  for  the  enemy  to  advance,  and  at  length  being 
relieved,  started  to  the  rear  under  orders  to  rest,  cook  rations  and 
remain  as  a  reserve,  ready  for  any  emergency  that  might  present  itself. 
We  were  soon  overtaken  by  intelligence  that  Generals  Drayton  and 
Kemper's  brigades  were  being  driven  from  the  field.  In  this  crisis 
General  Toombs  a/iopted  no  hesitating  policy.  "  In  the  absence  of 
higher  authority  "  s.iidhe  "  we  will  throw  ourselves  in  the  l)reach,"  and 
with  but  two  regiments  of  his  own,  and  one  half  of  the  eleventh,  the 
intrepid  General  proceeded  to  occupy  a  position  from  which  the  two 
brigades  had  been  driven.  Having  soon  come  in  view  of  the  enemy 
who  was  advancing  to  meet  us,  we  halted,  and  were  ranged  along 
a  fence  and  partially  masked  by  a  Avash  in  the  road.  The  Federal 
columns  came  forward  in  handsome  style — their  movements  slow,  their 
alignments  perfect,  and  in  fact  their  whole  organization  exhibiting  a 
system  and  uniformity  well  calculated  to  inspire 

"  The  stern  pride  which  ^varriors  feel, 

lu  foeinan  worthy  of  their  steel." 

When  within  about  seventy-five  yards  of  our  line  tftey  halted,  but  the 
order  to  fire  had  not  been  given  before  a  volley  was  poured  into  them 
with  considerable  effect.  Their  numbers  largely  exceeded  ours,  and, 
for  a  while^the  field  was  contested  with  great  stubbornness.  Having  no 
field  or  staff  officer  present  but  Adjutant  Kimbrough,  Major  Little  might 
have  expected  some  difficulty  in  getting  through  with  the  various  and 
weighty  duties  devolving  on  him.  But  the  heroes  of  Manassas  needed 
only  a  sight  of  the  enemy  and  a  knowledge  of  their  duty,  their  stout 
hearts  and  faithful  firelocks  were  suret};-  for  the  rest.  The  battle 
raged  with  an  energy  that  could  not  leave  it  long  undecided  with  a 
power  that  must  soon  be  exhausted.  The  earth  was  not  destined  long 
to  groan  under  the  burden  of  such  a  conflict:  The  Yankee  lines  at 
length  began  to  waver  slightly,  then  break,  and  in  a  moment  more 
the  whole  column  fled  in  wild  confusion  and  dismay.  We  jumped 
ov<jr  the  fence  and  followed  them  some  distance,  but  they  were  not  to 
be  overtaken.  Night  soon  fell  upon  the  memorable  scene  of  the 
Sharpsburg  battle,  and  we  slept  on  our  part  of  the  field.  With  un- 
important changes  of  position  our  right  wing  remained  at  this  4)lace 
until  after  dark  on  the  18th,  when  we  started  for  Virginia,  spent  the 
night  in  recrossing  the  river  and  marching  towards  Martinsburg,  in- 
a  mile  of  which  place  we  bivouacked  on  the  next  morning  Mean- 
while, the  left  wing  of  our  regiment  was  far  from  being  inactive.  As' 
before  stated,  on  the  morning  of  the  16th,  they  moved  on  in  rear  of 
the  wagon  train.  When  within  three  miles  of  Martinsburg  an 
exMted  cavalier  brought  intelligence  that  Yankee  cavalry  were  prols- 
ing  I  ard  upon  our  rear.     AVe  continued  our  march  until  we  gained 


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the  hill  which  overtops  the  town,  when  we  were  reinforced  hy  five 
companies  of  tbe  tenih  YirL:inia  and  five  of  the  second  (Virginia),* 
with  which  we  returned  to  meet  the  enemy.  But  the  rumor  proved 
to  be  a  false  alarm.  80  far  from  jnir.«uing  us.  they  had  hurnt^d  'he 
canal  bridge,  at  Williamsport.  to  ptevt-nt  us  from  returning.  After 
going  about  two  miles  beyond  Ilavneville,  and  remaining  there  until 
late  in  the  afternooii,  we  rctr:>ced  our  sM'ps  and  took  lod^in^fs  at  nijiht 
in  the  Marlinsbuig  depot.  I)uiing  the  ne.xt  morning  tudeis  were  ic- 
ceived  l)y  the  l^rovo.<t  Marshal  to  d-'tain  us  for  the  protection  and  de- 
fence of  the  village  and  hup|>lies  thert^  concentrated.  Accordingly, 
in  the  afternoon,  wc  moved  out  and  settled  in  a  ])lca?ant  giove.a  mile 
fron)  town,  near  the  Williamsport  road.  I  have  vi.sited  no  seciion  of 
country  where  such  vindictive  and  implacable  ho  tility  to  ConfciK-rate 
eoldieis  and  the  ConfVderate  cause  was  manifested  as  the  portion  of 
Beikeley  county  in  which  we  remained  and  through  which  we  ]>assed. 
Our  (juesiions,  however  politely  propounded,  were  almost  invariably  an- 
awered'in  the  curtest  monosyllables  and  with  the  most  frezing  brevity, 
and  the  cold  shoulder  was  turned  towar.s  us  generally,  with  maiked  and 
vmtnistakable  roughness.  One  "  sweet  little  angel  '  of  alady.st.Miding 
in  fiont  of  a  bouse  as  our  column  moved  alon-i  the  streets  of  Martins- 
burg,  turned  up  her  delicate  nose,  and  in  a  voice  full  of  music  and 
melody,  modestly  observed,  '*  I  don'i  Ike  tlie  smen  of  rebels."  It 
affords  me  pleasure  to  state  thfit  her  remaik  was  not  replied  to.  This 
fact,  and  this  alone,  renders  the  circumstance  worthy  of  insertion 
here.  On  the  morning  of  the  loth,  our  left  wing  again  moved  out  in 
the  direction  it  had  come,  accompancd  by  the  iufiuitry  above  refrred 
to,  about  one  hundred  cavalry  and  si.x  pieces  of  light  artillery,  the 
infantry  in  charge  of  Captain  C:.lston  (ranking  capiain),  and  the 
whole  force  commanded  by  the  bold,  dashing  Stuart  in  person — par 
fannthf^.  Whether  Stuart  is  "  fit  for  treason",  or  not,  en  the  subject 
of  "stratagems  and  spoils,"  on  this,  as  on  other  occasions,  he  proved 
himself  viagnitudhious'y  copious. 

To  take  possession  of  William.'^port  was  now  our  oVijcct.  The  road 
leading  to  that  plice  from  the  Virginia  side  slopes  down  a  long  gradual 
descent  to  the  river  with  large  open  fields  on  either  hand,  so  tliat  it 
wouhl  be  impossible  for  troops  to  move  upon  the  place  without  being 
observed  in  advance  of  their  arrival,  while  artillery  planted  on  the 
commanding  heights  of  the  Maryland  shore,  could  pour  destr  ction 
into  their  ranks  with  comparative  impunity.  But  the  bold  spirit-of 
Stuart  (juailed  not  at  these  formidable  obstructions.  Having  stationed 
cannon  on  the  crest  of  the  slope  and  commenced  firing  to  the  right 
and  hih  of  town,  he  rodo  along  in  front  and  conducted  the  infantry 
to  the  river  bauk.t  After  wadiug  the  Pot  )mac,  a  much  worse  ta->k  lay 
yet  before  us.  The  canal  runs  parallel  with  and  about  two  humlred 
yards  from  the  river,  and  the  bridge  across  it,  as  before  stated,  had 
been  destroyed.     Just   beyond  the  canal,  and  only  a  short  distance 

*^^\^r  enlire  force  con.si.slPil  ol  ihe  lHh,  l.'iO  men  ;  lOili  Virginia,  110  mi-n  ;  2d  Virginia 
]r4men.     WFiul'^  nuiiiher  HH. 

■p^cveral  shl)f.^  were  tired  at  ns,  nnd  one  of  onr  men  wiw  slightly  woundL'J  just  before 
eros^injj.     It  is  believed  tliat  citizens  did  the  firing. 


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• 
from  UP,  was  an  embankment,  behind  which  anv  number  of  the  enemy 
might  have  been  lurking  in  safety  ready  to  give  us  a  bcnefifat  any 
moment. 

Our  fearless  skirmishers  soon  clambered  over  and  were  scrambling 
up  a  bank  whose  precipitous  steep  a  human  footstep  had  seldom  trod 
before.  But  where  to  move  across  the  nmk  and  file  was  now  a  vexed 
and  puzzling  question.  Our  wing  wa?  in  front,  and  without  pausing 
to  debile  the  mutter,  oar  duck-legged  but  indotuitable  captain  ordered 
the  men  to  follow,  and  began  jumping  from  one  to  another  of  the 
flouting  frngments  of  the  budge.  As  one  would  sink  he  sprang  upon 
another  until,  by  dint  of  strong  eft'orts  and  good  luck,  he  reached,  in 
safety,  the  opposite  side.  Fortunately  for  the  dry  powder,  in  many  a 
gun  and  cartridge-box,  a  guide  come  up  at  th:it  moment  and  conducted 
us  higher  up  to  an'casy  and  accessable  crossing  place  (under  the  nc- 
queduct.).  Jn  a  few  moments  the  cav.-ilry  came  over  ;ind  clmrged  up 
one  street,  while  the  infantry  moved  along  another.  But  the  enemy, 
being  in  sm;ill  force,  had  judiciously  given  us  a. wide  berth,  and  w© 
took  possession  of  his  leavings,  repiiired  the  road  behind  us,  brought 
over  the  artillery,  occupied  the  town,  and  were  stationed  as  guarls  to 
its  ajiproaches.  Altout  this  time,  owing  to  a  misunderstanding  with 
a  rankiiig  oOicer,  Captain  Stokes  left  for  Martinsburg,  and  his  com- 
mand devolved  upon  Captain  Wood,  and  Colonel  Ilarman  was  placed 
in  charge  of  all  tiic  infantry.*  In  the  course  of  the  <lay  two  or  three 
companies  of  the  enemy's  cavalry  came  up  within  shooting  distance 
and  one  of  their  number  was  killed,  whereupon  the  balance  scampered.' 
During  the  foreno  n  of  the  next  day  they  again  advanced  in  some 
force  fiom  the  direction  of  llagerstown,  and  a  brisk  cavalr}'  fight  en- 
sued, and  late  in  the  evening  an  artillery  duello  took  place  on  the 
Sharpsburg  road,  in  which  Companies  B  and  K  were  in  media  res  be- 
tween the  contending  parties.  The  enemy  with  two  divisions  wore 
moving  upon  us.  Their  object  was  to  advance  up  the  tow  road  and 
cut  off  our  communication  with  the  Virginia  shi>re  by  getting  between 
us  ami  the  river.  Captain  Wood  was  accordingly  dispatched  with  the 
three  remaining  compjinies  to  check  their  advance.  For  this  purpose 
we  crossed  over  the  canal  and  proceeded  down  until  near  enough  to 
hear  them  talking  distinctly.  Having  no  knowledge  of  our  numbe'"S 
they  w(  re  advancing  Avith  great  caution  and  wanness.  It  was  now 
growing  dark  and  our  forces  began  a  retrograde  movement.  A  cou- 
rier was  dispatched  to  ('aptain  Wood,  commanding  him  to  move  his 
three  companies  up  to  the  ford,  while  a  cannon  was  hurried  across  the 
river  and  placed  in  position  to  rake  any  body  of  troops  coming  up  the 
tow  road,  and  which  would  become  visible  at  a  certain  point  by  the 
light  of  a  boat  burning  in  the  canal  beyond.  The  courier  sent  to 
Captain  Wood  did  not  reach  him  and  he  retained  h'n  position  until 
convinced  by  unmistakable  evidences  that  he  had  been  overlooked  and 
was  about  to  be  loft  alone  with  the  Yankees,  when  he  moved  up  the 
tow  road  towards  the  crossing,  to  rejoin  his  command.    As  soon  as  his 

•  About  night  two  brigades  of  cavalry  (Hampton's  an<l  LeeV,  I  learn  thoj-  were.,)  r&- 
ioforced  us. 


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column  came  in  view  by  the  light  of  the  burning  boat,  true  to  in- 
structions, the  cannon  opened  upon  them.  Fortunately  the  first  fire 
missed  its  aim,  and  dropping  into  a  cut;  they  moved  on  in  safety. 
After  wading  tlie  river,  our  left  wing  ag\in  took  the  direction  of  Mar- 
tinsbuvg,  and  having  crossed  Falling  Wat  ?r8,  lay  down,  about  mid- 
night, with  exhausted  bodies  but  thankful  hearts,  to  sleep  once  more 
on  Virginia  soil.*  Above  this  point,  in  the  corner  of  Morgan  county, 
a  Federal  force  was  stationed  to  guard  the  bridge  on  which  the  Balti- 
more and  Ohio  Railroad  crosses  Back  Creek.  AVith  good  barricades, 
cre.-tcd  by  surly  looking  cannon  heights  that  looked  down  upon  the 
road,  a  distance  of  fifty  feet,  and  capable  of  being  ascended  only  by 
narrow  winding  steps,  they  provided  themselves,  in  the  most  sumptu- 
ous and  extravagant  manner,  and  lived  without  the  slightest  ar>pre- 
hensions  of  ever  being  molested  or  made  afraid.  '  To  flank  and  Hush 
this  comfortable  little  c#\'ey  and  burn  the  bridge  was  our  next  object. 
Accordingly  a  little  before  sundown,  on  the  evening  of  the  21st,  we 
left  the  turnpike,  and  having  marched  up  the  road  to  within  one  and- 
a  half  miles  of  Hagerstown,  "  rested  in  place"  until  morning.  Be- 
fore daylight  the  march  was  resumed.  After  passing  through  the 
village,  before  mentioned,  we  turned  to  the  right,  crossed  the  railway 
and  moved  along  a  narrow  road  leading  towards  the  enemy's  rearl 
We  had  not  gone^far  before  the  road  became  impassable  for  artillery, 
and  the  dense  woods  rendered  cavalry  service  impiacticable.  So  the 
little  squad  of  infantry  cautiously  feeling  their  way  for  several  miles, 
step  by  step,  with  vigilant  and  trusty  skirmishers,  moved  on  alone. 
Presently  the  crack  of  an  occasional  gun  began  to  admonish  us  that 
"we  were  nearing  the  point  of  destination.  Yet  slowly,  patientl}^  we 
crept  along.  At  length  a  rapid  volley  was  heard,  a  sudden  rush  was 
made,  and  we  held  undisputed  possession  of  the  bridge  and  trustle- 
works.f  The  volley  of  the  enemy  had  been  their  departing  spasm, 
and  now  they  found  lefuge  in  the  neighboring  thickets. 

Crackling  llames  soon  curleil  around  tlie  columns  of  the  bridge  and 
a  dense  black  smoke  from  another  direction  indicated  that  Yankee  hog 
meat  was  going  up ;  that  the  fat,  greasy  larder  of  the  sweet  scented 
Pennsylvanias  was   at  a  considerable  hist. 

Having  loaded  themselves  with  deserted  portables  until,  like  a  frog 
full  of  shot,  they  could  hardly  wag,  our  men  started  off  to  destroy 
another  bridge,  two  miles  further  up.  But  we  had  hardly  moved  out 
of  the  position  iii  which  we  were  called  into  line,  when  a  skirmish  fire 
•opened  immediately  to  the  front,  and  balls  came  whistling  through  our 
•ranks.  It  was  now  evident  that,  having  been  reinforced,  the  fugitives 
had  returned  and  were  ambushed  in  the  thicket. to  surprise  and  either  kill 
•or  bag  our  entire  force.  Under  such  circumstances  an  advance  would 
have  been  suicidal  in  the  extreme.  We,  therefore,  formed  on  the 
Buunnit  of  the  hill  to  await  a  demonstration  from  the  enemy  and  sent 

*  During  our  connection  with  General  Stuart's  cavalry  wo  drew  tliree  day's  ration* 
every  otiier  day,  and  being  iu  a  country  well  supplied  witli  dairy  fu)-nilurc  feasted  on 
fatness  generally. 

■|-  We  eaplnred  one  prisoner.  Tlie  Yankee  cannon  amounted  to  nothing  more  than  a 
hollow  log  dressed  in  oil  cloths. 


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a  detail  from  each  company  to  nurse  and  replenish  the  fires  of  the 
now  tottering  bridge.  The  wily  Yakees  refused  to  advance  and  we  at 
length  moved  down  the  circuitous  descent  until  we  reached  the  rail- 
road, and  marching  off,  arrived  at  Ilayncville,  and  once  more  camped 
on  the  turnpike  road.  The  next  day  after  performing  more  sachezes 
and  forward  back  movements  than  Mere  ever  incorporated  in  dancing 
tactics  we  found  and  rejoined  the  right  wing  at  the  position  before  re»- 
ferred  to. 

And  now  that  we  have  left  Maryland,  for  the  present  let  us  pause 
and  take  a  hasty  glance  at  what  we  have  seen.  Our  people  seem  to 
have  thought  that  the  planting  of  Confederate  footprints  on 
her  soil  would  be  a  signal  at  wiich  "  the  pregnant  earth  would  render 
forth  her  warlike  birth."  That  the  whole  State,  like  Minerva 
from  the  brain  of  Jupiter  would  spring  forth  armed  cap  a  pie 
and  ready  for  action.  Like  pride  before  a(/all  lofty  calculations 
usually  precede  a  mortifying  disappointment.  Now  we  hear  of 
Maryland  being  *'  untrue  to  us,"  '*  in  sympathy  with  the  North," 
"hugging  her  chains,"  and  "no  longer  worthy  a  position  in 
the  Confederate  sisterhood.','  This  change  of  opinion  results  solely 
from  obi- ervation  during  our  stay  in  that  State;  observation  limited 
to  thirteen  days,  and  restricted  to  a  narrow  strip  of  land  running 
through  Frederick  and  Washington  counties.  Those  two,  and  them 
alone,  and  they  bounded  on  the  North  by  Pennsplvania^nd  girded  South 
by  the  worst  disaffection  in  Northern  Virginia.  The  people  were 
living  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  United  States  and  had  no. 
other  power  than  that  to  look  to  for  protection.  Our  army  could  not  have" 
been  expected  to  take  up  its  abode  there  and  protect  them  against  the 
charge  of  treason.  "  The  imperious  necessities  of  geographical  con- 
figuration" forbade  it.  General  Lee's  proclamation  to  the  contrary, 
notwithstanding.  The  presence  of  a  Confederate  army  did  not,  could 
not  burst  tlie  fetters  with  which  Maryland  was  chained  to  her  doom. 
Under  such  circumstances  did  not  prudence  dictate  and  patriotism 
sanction  the  suggestion  that  citizens  preserve  apparent  neutrality, 
when  an  opposite  course  would  necessarily  prove  profitless  and  fatal  ? 
the  pulling  down  the  pillars  of  a  temple  whose  fall  would  involve 
them  alone  in  its  ruins.  Notwithstanding  these  insuperable  embar- 
r  ssments  v^e  did  receive  sympathy,  encouragement  and  aid.  Eight 
hundred  men  joined  our  stjindard,  (while  mtiuy  residents  of  that  sec- 
tion were  already  in  the  field  on  our  side.)  From  windows  in  every 
town  we  passed  through,  handkerchiefs  waved,  Confederate  flags 
floated,  cheering  smiles  greeted  us,  and  anxiety  for  our  success  was 
freely  and  fearlessly  expressed.  I  doubt  capitally  whether  Berkeley 
and  Jefferson  just  across  the  river  have  given  to  our  cause  the  .num- 
ber of  troops,  or  have  as  many  Southern  sympat\ii7.ers  left  at  home  as 
Frederick  and  Washington  ;  although  sympathy  in  Maryland  is  treated 
as  treason,  and  in  Virginia  it  is  punishable  only  as  rebellion.  If 
Maryland  be  a  Sodom,  it  is  at  least  peopled  by  a  host  of  righteous 
Lots  whose  presence  demand  its  preservation.  But  no,  indeed,  when 
her  thraldom  is  burst  she  will  rush  to  the  embraces  of  our  Govern- 
ment and  take  the  position  which  her  blood,  her  institutions  and  her 


interests  demand.  The  night  of  her  bondage  is  yet  black  and  stormy. 
Stars  (from  the  South.)  it  is  true,  glimmer  Avith  clouded  light  through 
the  darkness  of  her  heavens,  but  the  morning  will  break  anon,  and 
Maryland  will  be  up  and  fortli. 

On  the  27th  September,  our  regiment  moved  up  to  Bunker  Hill, 
and  camped  the  next  day  within  hvc  miles  of  Winchester.  Here  a 
disease  resembling  smallpox""  having  made  its  appearance  among  the 
troops  of  the  division,  on  the  16th  and  18th  (October,)  our  brigade  and 
General  Toombs',  under  command  of  Colonel  Anderson,  moved  through 
"Winchester,  Kernstown.  (turning  to  the  right  at  the  latter  place,) 
and  went  into  ijuarantino  beyond  Cedar  Creek.  I  might  here  linger 
t  >  descant  with  some  pleasure  and  no  little  enthusiasm  on  the  scenery 
which  surrounded  us  there,  the  most  rugged  and  grotesque  I  ever  saw, 
composed  of — 

"Crngs,  knowls  iiikI  hiohikIs  composedly  hurled, 
'ihe  friiginoiits  of  an  enrlier  world." 

I  might,  but  time  forbids,  besides  my  dear  reader  you  know  you  and 
I  have  lost  those  feelinn;s  .we  used  to  have.  Virginia  bog's  have  long 
since  emotnbed  the  remains  of  our  enthusiasm  and  romance.  Our 
poetry  and  admiration  lor  the  grand  and  beautiful  are  also  buried  in 
the  same  grave.  To  all  lovelorn  swains,  who  on  account  of  tho 
repulses  of  some  adored  but  unappreciating  (iJincy  are  threatening  to 
duck  their  troubles  in  the  wine  cup,  ventilate  the  contents  of  their 
jugulars  ami  spile  things  generally,  we  would  respectfully  prescribe 
AS*  a  sovereign  sanative  a  three  years  dose  of  tl. e  war — acting  the 
part  of  a  mild  aperient  it  will  rid  them  of  those  infirmaties.  '  But 
enouL'h  of  this,  my  candle  is  burning  out  an!  I  must  hasten  on.  Wo 
remained  at  these  camps  until  the  2olh  October,  when  moving  orders 
were  again  received,  and  our  regiment  made  hurf  icd  marches  through 
Strasburg,  wading  both  branches  of  the  Shenandoah,  (the  water  cold 
enough  to  have  given  a  whetstone  the  cramp.)  and  passing  through 
Luray,  over  the  mountains,  and  through  Madison  Couithouse,  and 
reached  Gorrlonsville  on  the  3d  November,  having  made  a  distance  of 
near  one  hundred  miles  in  Ic.'-s  than  five  <iays.t  .From  Gordonsville 
on  the  6th  and  7th.  we  moved  up  through  Orange  Courthouse,  waded  the 
Ilapidan  rivei\and  (juartered  in  a  corner  of  Madison, twelve  miles  south  of 
Culpeper.  Here  we  remained  ([uiet  for  a  short  time.  But  the  seedi- 
ness  of  our  garments,  the  scaicity  of  blankets,  and  the  increasing 
rigors  of  the  season,  sadly  interfered  with  our  comfort.  To  alleviate 
these  difficulties  as  far  as  practicable,  rawhide  moccasins  were  made 
for,  and  worn  by  the  barefooted  soldiers,  and  orders  were  issued  re- 
quiring us  to  move  our  fires  at  night  and  sleep  on  the  warm  ground 
where  they  had  been  built.  I  know  of  no  instance  in  which  this  order 
was  carried  into  operation.  The  men  preferred  to  nod  and  shriver 
around  their  fires  rather  than  sleep  and  wallow  in  the  ashes. 

*I  prc.«uinp  the  dise!i>;c  was  s^inallpox,  hut  have  no  means  of  asioertaiiiiiig  with  certainty. 

f  It  is  nn<h'rstood  that  we  were  flien  en  mute  for  some  point,  b'low  Uieiimond,  but  on 
reacliiiii;  (iorduiisville,  tlie  oiders  were  couiitei-mandeil.  For  tlie  benefit  of  I'cader.s  who 
have  maps  con  vciii. 'lit  I  will  state  that  this  march  lead  through  fehenandoi:h,  Warren,  I'age, 
Madison,  and  into  Orange  counties. 


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On  the  19tli  we  once  more  marched  back,  and  having  crossed  the 
llapidan,  passed  through  Ojango  Courthouse,  and  again  moved  down 
the  Fredericksburg  road.  I  have  said  it  rained  when  we  travelled  the 
same  road  eight  months  before  ;  "  rain"  is  too  mikl  a  word  to  express 
the  nnughty  and  turbulent  behavior  of  the  weather  on  this  occasion. 
The  clouds  canie  over  one  at  a  time,  turned  wrongside  ounv:ir<]s,  and 
literally  shook  themselves  upon  us.  But  we  ])addled  away,  notwith- 
standing, and  on  the  22d  (November)  hiving  passed  through  Spotsyl- 
vania Courthouse,  bivouacked  nea^  Hamiltorrs  crossing,  on  the  Rich- 
mond and  Fredericksburg  railroad,  three  miles  from  the  latter  place. 
AVe  had  now  gotten  fiiirly  out  of  quarantir;e,  and  once  more  joined 
the  corps  to  which  we  belonged.  In  a  few  days  the  regiment  received 
a  supply  of  clothing,  bl.uikets,  and  other  necessaries  with  which  to 
give  grim  visaged  winter  a  warm  reception. 

General  McClellan  had  been  decapitated,  and  Burnside  with  a  heavy 
force  hovered  threatenirngly  on  the  Stafford  shore  of  the  Rnppiihan- 
nock.  Heavy  fatigue  and  picket  duty  therefore  became  the  order  of 
the  day. 

Early  on  the  morning  of  the  11th  of  Do  ember  the  usual  signal 
from  beyond  the  river  gave  warning  that  the  pontoons  have  arriv,  and 
General  Lee  and  the  balance  of  rebeldom  had  better  stand  from  under. 
Our  regiment  Avas  moved  out,  and  aligned  to  the  right  of  and  contig- 
uous to  Hamilton's  crossing,  where  it  remained  during  the  day.  The 
next  morning  we  crossed  the  railroad  and  moved  up  the  line  two  miles 
in  direction  of  t'le  telegraph  road.  The  succeeding  day  was  the  point 
of  time  upon  which  depended  the  fate  of  Richmond  and — Burnside. 
A  little  after  sunrise  a  wearying  double  quick  brought  us  to  the  front 
line,  and  we  formed  along  a  fence  ditch  6n  the  Bernard  farm.*  Im- 
mediately to  the  right  of  our  brigade  the  battle  raged  with  great 
energy  and  desperation.  We  had  a  wide  field  and  an  open  view  in- 
viting us  to  witiiess  every  stage  of  this  sanguinary  struggle.  JBut 
the  enemy  deemed  our  position  impregnable  and  did  not  advance  upon 
us.  The  skirmishers  we  had  thrown  out  and  those  of  the  enemy  lay 
all  day  in  two  hundred  yards  of  each  other  ;  occasional  balls  whistled 
over  our  heuls,  and  a  few  casualties  were  the  result. 

On  the  night  of  the  14th,  leaving  our  skirmishers,  we  fell  back  to  a 
line  of  rifle  pits,  (a  mile  back,  which  we  had  prepared  for  the  emer- 
gency of  another  attack  by  the  Yankees,)  and  tW'O  days  afterwards 
(the  enemy  being  gone)  returned  to  our  former  camping  quarters. 


Reader,  my  task  is  finished  ;  my  history  is  completed,  and  with  a 
trembling  hand  I  commit  it  to  you.  la  process  of  time  other  deeds 
\¥ill  be  to  record,  other  scenes  to  communicate,  and  if  the  writer  con- 
tinues in  existence  this  pamphlet  will  consequently  pass  into  a 
revised  and  eijlarged  edition.     To  those  who  have  so  kindly  encouraged 

*  As  on  other  occnsioiH,  the  iiositioii  of  onr  britrii'le  was  jit  the  extreme  right  of  Long- 
•treefs  corps,  our  regiment  fourth  from  tlie  right  of  the  brigade. 


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ami  so  liberally  patronized  tliis  undertaking,  I  shall  be  profoundly 
grateful  to  the  end  of  life.  I  am  aware  that  the  details  1  have  given 
are  somewhat  dry  and  desultory.  The  history  of  a  single  regiment 
could  not  be  otherwise.  The  experience  of  one  day  is  the  experince 
of  many.  The  monotony  is  but  seldom  relieved  by  intereisting  or  note- 
worthy incidents,  and  the  time  devoted  to  battle,  of  necessity,  com- 
paratively brief.  With  such  materials  as  my  only  apology  for  the 
meagreness  of  valuable  matter,  I  respectfully  submit  what  I  have 
written.  I  would  have  paid  a  tribute  to  many  more  of  tliose  who  fell 
at  Manassas,  but  as  some  cf  the  companies  failed  to  furnish  me  with 
notes,  and  I  was  averse  to  presenting  a  partial  record,  I  forbore.  In 
a  future  edition  I  may  make  the  amende. 

Comrades !  we  have  great  cause  of  gratulation  that  remarkable 
military  achievements  have  been  accomplished  and  brillant  victories 
crowned  our  arms  in  every  quarter  of  the  Confederacy.  But  we  must 
not  forget  that  the  foe  is  still  vigorous  and  powerful,  and  thorou>.hly 
resolved  to  leave  no  eflbrt  unexpended  in  attempting  to  effect  our  sub- 
jugation. Let  us  resolve  to  endure,  with  fortitude,  the  present  and 
wait  in  patience  Tor  the  future  of  this  war.  No  individual  not  wholly 
blinded  by  the  fienzy  of  fanaticism  can  harbor  a  doubt  of  our  ulti- 
niate  success.  History  mentions  no  instance  in  which  a  united  people 
have  been  con(|uered,  and  no  record  ever  will  contain  nobler  illustra- 
tions of  endurance  and  heroism,  than  have  characterized  the  struggles 
of  our  armies  from  Texas  to  Virginia.  Let  us  cherish  these  memo- 
ries, emulate  the  prowess  of  our  brethen,  and  resolve  that  the  ark  of 
freedom  shall  ride  safely  through  the  storm,  or  Southern  soil  be  made 
the  cemetery  of  a  nation.  Let  us  send  word  to  posterity,  through 
our  deeds  which  must  go  do^'n  to  them,  that  the  blood  of  the  patriot- 
fathers  still  courses  the  veins  of  their  children. 

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